ECS289F-W05: Selected Topics in Scientific Data Management

Logistics

• Instructor: Bertram Ludaescher
• Date / Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 4:10-5:00pm
• Office Hour: Wednesday, Friday: 11am-noon, 3051 Kemper Hall
• Location: 244 Olson
• Course Description

Schedule and Notes

1. Week of January 3-7
   • Monday: ---
   • Wednesday: Introduction and Overview, [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: ... continued (from Wednesday)
2. Week of January 10-14
   • Monday: Introduction/Review Relational Model, Datalog, Queries [handout.pdf]
   • Wednesday: ... continued (from Monday)
   • Friday: Overview of student projects, introduction to Global-as-View data integration [handout.pdf] [Assignment 1.pdf]
3. Week of January 17-21
   • Monday: --- (Martin Luther King Day)
   • Wednesday: Introduction to ontologies [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: Introduction to description logic ontologies [handout.pdf]
4. Week of January 24-28
   • Monday: Description logic ontologies (cont'd) [handout.pdf] [Project Descriptions.pdf]
   • Wednesday: First-order Predicate Logic review [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: ... (continued from Wednesday)
5. Week of January 31 - February 4
   • Monday: Introduction to Scientific Workflows [handout.pdf] and [Assignment 2.pdf]
   • Wednesday: Introduction to Kepler [handout.pdf] (guest lecture by Ilkay Altintas)
   • Friday: Semantic Annotations for Scientific Workflows [handout.pdf]
6. Week of February 7-11
   • Monday: Semantic Annotations for Scientific Workflows (continued)
   • Wednesday: Scientific Workflows and Actor-oriented Modeling & Design, [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: Introduction to Kahn Process Networks [handout.pdf]
7. Week of February 14-18
   • Monday: Process Networks (continued); introduction to Cal [handout.pdf]
   • Wednesday: "Workflow Plumbling" with the Ptolemy II expression language [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: (handouts will be uploaded shortly)
8. Week of February 21-25
   • Monday: --- (Presidents' Day)
   • Wednesday: Introduction to SRB, [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: Introduction to Condor I, [handout.pdf]
9. Week of February 28 - March 4
   • Monday: Introduction to Condor II, [handout.pdf]
   • Wednesday: Introduction to the Grid and Globus (guest lecture by Dr. Shawn Bowers) [handout.pdf]
   • Friday: Introduction Grid and Globus (continued/wrap-up) and scientific workflow execution issues [handout.pdf]
10. Week of March 7-11 (Student/Project Presentations start)
    • Monday:
      • Data Integration/GAV rewriting (Jenny Wang)
      • Biological KR/Pathways (Russel D'Sa)
    • Wednesday:
      • Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis I (Betty Chan)
      • Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis II (Billy Man)
    • Friday:
      • Schema Matching (Ji-Yeong Chong)
      • Data-intensive Kepler workflows and SRB (Tim Wong)
11. Week of March 14-18
    • Monday:
      • Analysis-intensive Kepler workflows (Mike Kofi)
      • Kepler and real-time data streams (Carlos Rueda, Haiyan Yang)
    • Wednesday: --- (Dead day)
    • Friday: ---