Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 598F
Issues in Discovery & Use of Digital Information


Andrea LaPaugh

Schedule and Readings

Spring 2005


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Schedule of topics and readings:


Mon. Jan. 31:  Introduction and organization

Wed. Feb 2: Information Retrieval  - background

Reading:
Mon. Feb. 7:  no class.

Wed. Feb 9.:  Information retrieval - recent research.
Reading: 

Mon. Feb 14:  Information retrieval - recent research, continued.
Wed. Feb 16:
Instead of meeting today, we will have a joint meeting this Friday (2/18), 1:30 - 4:00 in Room 301, with Kai Li's seminar COS 598E.  This will be a guest presentation by Dr. Andrei Broder of IBM Watson Research Center on "Resemblance, Containment, and Min-Wise Permutations."   Tentative papers can be found on the COS598E  Web site;  check that web site close to Feb.18 for updates.

Mon. Feb 21:  Content retrieval on peer-to-peer networks
Reading:
Wed. Feb 23:  Web characterization and  using graph characteristics in search
Reading:
Background:

Mon. Feb 28:
  Using graph characteristics, continued;  using Web characteristics
Reading:
Wed. March 2:  Data streams, presented by Anish Muttreja
Reading:

Mon. March 7:  Classification, presented by Frank Battaglia
Reading:
Wed. March 9: Data streams, continued.
Reading:

Mon. March 14 and Wed. March 16: spring break; no meeting.


Mon. March 21 :
Content delivery, presented by Frank Battaglia
Reading:
Wed. March 23:  Content delivery, cont. and proxy caching
Reading:


Mon. March 28: Data streams: algorithms
Reading:

Wed. March 30:
  Data streams: algorithms continued
Reading:


Mon. April 4: Data mining - relationships among data values
Reading:

Wed. April 6: CANCELLED, topic rescheduled to April 18.


Mon. April 11:
Sensor networks, presented by  Anish Muttreja
Reading:

Wed. April 13:
clustering algorithms, guest speaker Jie Chen
Reading:
Related paper:
Background - for reference:



Mon. April 18:
Data mining - periodic patterns
Reading:
Also of interest but won't cover in class:

Wed. April 20: clustering algorithms for variable number clusters
Reading:

Mon. April 25:
Publish-subscribe systems: introduction and early work.
Reading: 
Background:

Wed. April 27: Publish-subscribe systems, cont.
Reading:

Wed. May 4 - make-up class:
  Recent work in publish-subscribe systems.  Persistent queries on unstructured text collections.
Reading:
A.S. LaPaugh Sat Apr 23 19:11:03 EDT 2005