Database Technology dat5/F9D/KDE3/Inf7 Fall 2005
News
- 2005-11-18: Added the exam requirements see below
- 2005-11-18: Added dates for project presentations and the project
presentation guidelines
1 Overview
In the Dat5/F9D/KDE3/Inf7 course, we cover a mixture of classical and emerging
topics within database technology. This includes mobile services,
location-based services, business intelligence and database performance. The
course will consist of 15 seminars.
A high degree of interaction and frequent discussions will be
encouraged. It is expected that you attend all sessions, read the
papers for each session, and are able to pose questions to the
presenters about the papers (see note about the opponent system below).
Note that it may in some cases, e.g., when presenting a paper yourself,
be necessary to read additional papers referenced by your paper in order
to fully understand your own paper. A good place to find papers is the
DBLP
online bibliography.
2 Schedule
Lectures are scheduled Mondays between 12.30 and 14:15 and Fridays between
9:00 and 10:45 in room E3-109. The table below contain the
details about the preparation for the seminars.
The course consists of following parts.
- Presentations by the supervisors. This provides an overview of the
course and some of the issues covered in the course.
- One presentation of a technical paper for each student.
- Presentation of students of the results from the current semester and
the future work on the next semester.
- The third part consist of one half lecture of conclusions and moving
towards Dat6/... projects.
Date |
Location |
Presenters |
Material |
2005-09-05 |
E3-109 |
Kristian Torp |
Introduction to the semester and the seminar (slides powerpoint) |
2005-09-09 |
E3-109 |
Kristian Torp |
|
2005-09-12 |
E3-109 |
Torben B. Pedersen |
|
2005-09-16 |
E3-109 |
Albrecht Schmidt |
|
2005-09-19 |
E3-109 |
Kristian Torp |
|
2005-09-23 |
E3-109 |
Ivan V.S. Larsen
Ruobing Li
|
|
2005-09-26 |
E3-109 |
Ester Moses Mungure
Claus Åge Jensen
|
|
2005-09-30 |
E3-209 |
Per Bech Jensen
Kenneth Rand Sørensen
|
|
2005-10-03 |
E3-109 |
Tom Oddershede
Jens Frøkjær
|
|
2005-10-07 |
E3-109 |
Christian S. Jensen |
|
2005-10-14 |
E3-109 |
Kim Schulz
Kovarththanan Rajartnam
|
|
2005-10-28 |
E1-214 |
Ruoran Zhou
Palle B. Hansen
|
|
2005-12-05 |
E3-209
(10.00- 13.00) |
Group d527a (csj) Group d528a |
Presentation of project and feedback from other groups and advisors. |
2005-12-07 |
E3-209
(10.00- 13.00) |
Group d529a(al) Group d526a (torp) |
Presentation of project and feedback from other groups and advisors
from |
Presentation Requirements
The following is a list of requirements for the presentations. The requirements must be followed,
unless specific permission is given by the course teachers.
- The total time spent on a presentation is about 35
minutes. This means that the presentation must be rehearsed
beforehand to get an estimate of the time spent, and the necessary
modifications made afterwards. It is important to actually say out
loud all words of the presentation. Only this way is it possible to
get a good feeling for the length of the talk and to identify
trouble spots in the presentation that need further work. After the
presentation, we will spend about 15 minutes on discussing the paper
and the presentation.
- The presentations must contain concrete examples. It is
often time-consuming and difficult to construct good, specific
examples, but the time spent on this is well spent. Important
observations that the listener should definitely understand are
prime candidates for exemplification.
- The presentation must be shown to the project supervisor
72 hours before the course presentation, and any
modifications required by the supervisor must be made to the
presentation.
- The slides must be sent to torp@cs.aau.dk
after the presentation. They will then be put on the web page.
- Each student must present 1 paper.
- Each student must be the opponent for two paper
presentations. The opponents read the paper particularly carefully
and are required to be able to ask detailed questions about the
paper and discuss it in a detail.
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Additionally, each student must participate in one of the following
activities: a) presenting a demo of the prototype developed in the project, b)
presenting the results of the DAT5 project, or c) giving a presentation on how
to present papers.
Presentation Guidelines
The following is a list of guidelines for the presentations. The guidelines may
be adapted to the specific situation in which they are used.
- Make sure that the presentation has a simple structure and that
the listener understands and is able to follow the structure during
the presentation. There should probably be an overview slide at the
beginning and a talk summary/conclusions slide at the end. It may be
useful to remind the listener of the structure during the
presentation. The outline of the presentation can also be written on
the board, where it can be pointed to throughout the presentation.
- It is often a good idea to divide a presentation into three
separate parts. The first part should present the material without
criticism, but be as faithfully to the authors as possible. The
second part then relates the material to a) related work, e.g., as
presented on DAT5 and b) your DAT5 project. The third part evaluates
both form and content of the presented material, i.e., good and bad
points. A self-evaluation of the presentation is also possible. The
time spent on these parts should be about 28, 4, and 3 minutes,
respectively (give or take a few minutes).
- Do try to use figures effectively. Although these can take some
time to draw and although it may take some time to do them exactly
right, they can be very effective in communicating the most
important points of a presentation.
- Rehearse the presentation in front of an audience before the
exam.
- Make sure that the slides are easy to present. If some
transitions between slides are difficult to remember then the slides
should probably be revised. Again, the way to identify problems is
through saying all the words out loud.
- Do number the slides; this makes it easier for the listeners to
later refer to them.
- For the exam, it is a good idea to have everything on the slides
so that there is no need to draw spontaneous pictures on the board.
Exam Requirements
The exam requirements.
Project Presentation Guidelines
The following is a list of guidelines for the presentations of your projects
for the other groups and advisors at the end of the course. The guidelines may
be adapted to the specific situation in which they are used.
The groups has approximately 35 minuets for present the
- Present the specific topic that the group is working on.
- Present the motivation for working on this topic.
- Provide the necessary background such that the other groups and advisors
can understand the topic you are working on
- Discuss the most relevant related work.
- Present the status of the project. What will be in the project report
that you hand in for evaluation.
- State clearly the contributions of your work.
- Discuss shortly what you will working on for the next semester. What are
the best directions of future research?
- List 3-5 questions/topics where you would like feedback from the other
groups and advisors