Term Paper (Optional)

Due Date

Paper Topic, overview and team information is due on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 @ 11:59 pm
Final submission is due on April 18, 2018 @ 11:59 pm.
Any student who is willing to further study and implement any relavanet topic on database system is recouraged to survey a list of papers and implement at least one of those preferably with some improvement. You can form teams. A team must not have more than four (4) members.

By February 14, 2018, you need to form a team, decide a topic you are interested in and give a one-page overview of what you want to work on. Please cite at least three sources you are considering. We will not allow two teams to work on the exact same topic; so, reserve your topic on the google sheet as early as possible.

Your final submission would be a paper on the topic and an accompanying poster (both in pdf format). Graduate TAs and I will grade your submissions. We will also provide you feedback from peers, and give bonus points to top 3 submissions (based on both the report and the poster).

The paper should be no longer than 12 pages (excluding references) and should be formatted with the same rules as VLDB papers (templates for submissions). You can use either Latex or Microsoft Word for writing your report. Your report should include the abstract and references to the papers. The poster should be comprehensive and complement the report. The recommended poster dimensions are 48 in tall x 36 in wide (121 cm tall x 91.5 cm wide) (Portrait orientation) The font type should be easily legible. The poster should include the paper title, the full name of the authors. The poster should contain the key points of the paper, including the scientific goal, the problem being solved to reach that goal, the solution approach, and methodology. Figure legends are essential and should be short but informative.

Submission Guidelines

Paper Topic, overview, and team information are due on February 14, 2018,. Please upload TermPaperTopic.pdf to Blackboard.

Final submission is due on April 18, 2018 at 11:59 pm. You need to upload your work to Blackboard as TermPaper.zip (only one submission per team). The zip file should contain two pdfs, Paper.pdf and Poster.pdf.

Your submission is worth 8% of your final grade.

List of topics

I am providing you a list of topics, but you are most welcome to pick any other topic of your interest.
  • History of Database Applications
  • Database System Architechture
  • Relational Query Processing and Query Optimization
  • NoSQL
  • Information Retrieval and Data Mining
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
  • Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
  • BigData
  • Database Security
  • Distributed Databases: SQL vs NoSQL
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