Midterm Presentation
CS520, Fall 2005

Due: Thursday, November 3

Please upload your midterm presentation slides using the online turnin server. One submission from each group is sufficient. Note that file uploading will be disabled automatically after 11:59PM of the due date, so please turn in your work on time.

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[Schedule]

• Monday, October 31
• Umberto, Campos, Hagos, Tamamian - Opinion Observer: Analyzing and Comparing Opinions on the Web by B. Liu, M. Hu, J. Cheng.
• Miremadi, Ng, Nguyen - Building Adaptable and Reusable XML Applications with Model Transformations, by I. Kurtev, K. van den Berg.
• Saleh, Tsan, Wang - Web Browsing Performance of Wireless Thin-Client Computing, by S. Jae Yang, Jason Nieh, Shilpa Krishnappa, Aparna Mohla, Mahdi Sajjadpour.
• Wednesday, November 3
• Almirol - Using XForms to Simplify Web Programming by R. Cardone, D. Soroker, A. Tiwari.
• Hu, Olsen, Orona - LDAP using OpenLDAP or Fedora Directory Server (live code examples are required during presentation)
• Amenero, Fish, Oleg, Wang - Challenges and Practices in Deploying Web Acceleration Solutions for Distributed Enterprise Systems by W.-S. Li, W.-P. Hsiung, O. Po, K. Hino, K. S. Candan, D. Agrawal.

[Topics]

For midterm presentations please choose one of the following topics:

• Acegi (live code examples are required during presentation)
• Any paper from WWW 2005, WWW 2004, and WWW 2003. The papers I'm particularly interested in are
• Algorithmic Detection of Semantic Similarity by A. G. Maguitman, F. Menczer, H. Roinestad, A. Vespignani.
• Papers in the following session of WWW 2005
• Web-based Educational Applications
• User-focused Search and Crawling
• Measurements and Analysis
• Information Diffusion Through Blogspace by D. Gruhl, R. Guha, D. Liben-Nowell, A. Tomkins.
• Data Extraction and Label Assignment for Web Databases, by Jiying Wang, Fred H. Lochovsky.
• Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Client Characterization Driven Web Server, by Balachander Krishnamurthy, Craig E. Wills, Yin Zhang, Kashi Vishwanath.
• High-Performance Spatial Indexing for Location-Based Services, by Jussi Myllymaki, James Kaufman.
• Mining Newsgroups Using Networks Arising From Social Behavior, by Rakesh Agrawal, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yirong Xu.
• P2Cast: Peer-to-peer Patching Scheme for VoD Service, by Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley.
• Query-Free News Search, by Monika Henzinger, Bay-Wei Chang, Brian Milch, Sergey Brin.
• Scaling Personalized Web Search, by Glen Jeh, Jennifer Widom.
• Scholarly Publishing and Argument in Hyperspace, by V.S.Uren, J.B.Domingue, Gangmin Li, S.Buckingham Shum, E.Motta.
• Text Joins in an RDBMS for Web Data Integration, by Luis Gravano, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava.

Each presentation will be about 40 minutes, give or take 10 minutes depending on the number of people in the group. Each group member must present at least 10 minutes.