CSC8710: Seminar on Database Management Systems 

(Winter 2012)

[Presentation Schedule]

Class: TuTh 6-7:20PM, State Hall 318,

Webpage: http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/csc8710/csc8710.html

Announcements:

  • All students who would like to take the course are expected to attend the first class. You cannot take this course if you do not attend the first class. 

Objective

This course will consist of a sequence of presentations on scientific workflows based on recent papers selected from premier conferences and journals. Topics that will be covered include but not limited to the list below:

·        Scientific workflow provenance management

·        Scientific workflow provenance analytics

·        Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management

·        Scientific workflow architectures, models, and languages

·        Scientific workflow monitoring and failure handling

·        Streaming data processing in scientific workflows

·        Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows

·        Service, Grid, or Cloud-based scientific workflows

·        Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows

·        Scientific workflow composition

·        Trust, privacy, security issues in scientific workflows

·        Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows

·        Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling

·        Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification

·        Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability  ?

·        Scientific workflow applications

 

Each student will present a number of lectures based on selected papers from the scientific workflow literature. In addition, students will be expected to conduct one course project under the guidance of the instructor. At the end of the semester, students will present a demo and submit a project report. The objective of the course is, after taking this course, students are expected to have a broad knowledge of scientific workflow in general, understand well a specific problem in particular, and are able to apply the techniques learned to solve a scientific data analysis problem. 

 

Presentation schedule

  • The schedule of presentations is here. Please make sure your slides are uploaded at least one week in advance. If you need to change your reserved the dates, you can exchange with another student or talk to the instructor, but the change needs to be done at least one week earlier. 

Prerequisites

  • CSC6710, or with the permission of the instructor. 

Instructor:

TA's office hours

  • Name:TBA
  • Office: TBA
  • Office hours: TBA

Textbook:

  • No textbook is required for this class.

Course load and grading:

The course will require the following work: 

  • (85 %) Present 3~4 papers.
  • (15%)  A report of 4 pages to summarize a particular topic of scientific workflows.

All the above work is expected to be done individually except the projects which will be completed by a group of at most two students.

Late work penalty:

You can have one late submission for either an assignment or for a project but not for both up to one week without any penalty. Please indicate on the cover page of your submission when you use your late excuse. If late excuse is not used, a penalty of 20 % per day will be assessed. The late excuse cannot be used for the last assignment or the last project whichever is due later. No late excuse can be used for any exam.

Academic Honesty:

Unless explicitly specified that you can work together as a group, copying an assignment/exam/project from another student in this class or obtaining a solution from some other source will lead to an automatic failure for this course and to a disciplinary action. Allowing another student to copy one's work will be treated as an act of academic dishonesty, leading to the same penalty as copying.

Students with Disability and Special Need

If you need a special accommodation due to mental or physical disability or other medical reasons, please contact the Educational Accessibility Services (EAS) Office (1600 David Adamany Undergraduate Library) at?phone (313) 577-1851 or contact the instructor for special assistance and accommodation.

Project Resources

·         Open source ActiveBPEL 5.0 for free download

·         BPEL 101 Tutorial

·         Oracle BPEL Process Manager (free download)

·         Oracle BPEL Tutorials

 

The end