DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

CS 274 Topics in XML & Web Intelligence

Spring, 2008

Section 1: Tuesday & Thursday 19:00 – 20:15, MH 223

Instructor: Qi (Tom) Zhang Office Hours: 20:15 – 20:45 Tuesday & Thursday (Also by appointment)
Office: Duncan Hall 282 Phone: 650-253-1376
Classroom : MH 223 Class time : 19:00 – 20:15, Tuesday & Thursday

Email:  qzhang <a> cs.sjsu.edu
Note: My preferred method of communication is Email. I almost always answer emails within 24 hours, except possibly on weekends and holidays. To expedite emails, please put the text "CS274" into the subject line of your email.

Catalog Course Description:
XML: DTD, Schema, Namespace, XSLT, XPath, Xquery, Encryption, Signature in XML, applications in vertical industries; Semantic Web; RDF, RDFS, Ontology, Inferences; Web services, relevant tools for search, inference, data conversion in XML, Semantic web applications.

Prerequisites: CS 160 or instructor consent.

Required Texts:

 (1) XML for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide), by Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press, November 2000

 (2) Building an Intelligent Web: Thoery and Practice, by Rajendra Akerkar and Pawan Lingras, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, October 2007

Recommended Textbook: (Not required)

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data by Soumen Chakrabarti, Morgan Kaufmann, August  2002

Course Topics

Fundamental of XML: DTD, Schema, Namespace, XSLT, Xpath. RSS

Mashups using Google Mashup Tool, Yahoo Pipe, Mircrosoft Popfly

Semantic Web: RDF and RDFS

Information Retrieval, TFIDF, Vector Space Model, Search Engine

Classification, Association and Clustering

Web Mining (Web-Usage Mining, Web-Content Mining and Web-Structure Mining)

Web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc)

Learning Objectives:

 At the end of this course, you will be able to

 -   Understand XML, RSS, Semantic Web and web services
 -   Know the concepts of information retrieval and web mining (Web-Usage Mining, Web-Content Mining and Web-Structure Mining)
 -   Do a mashup using Google Mashup Tools, Yahoo! Pipe and Microsoft PopFly

Computer Use in this class:

You will be required to have a wireless-network ready laptop computer for use in the class. You will also need to use your own laptop with wireless access to submit your software assignment inside SJSU campus. Your laptop needs to have wireless capability and you need to register a free wireless account at http://www.sjsu.edu/sjsuone/.

Term Project

There will be a group mashup project using Google Mashup Tools, Yahoo! Pipe or Mircrosoft Popfly. Each group consists of two students. The group chooses a topic, writes a term-project report, and gives a 10 minute presentation at the end of the semester during class time.

Exams:

Two Quiz:  1st on March 6; 2nd on May 1st, 2008
Midterm Exam:  April 3, 2008
Final Exam: Thursday, May 15, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, MH 223

The Quiz is 30 minutes long and will be given in the beginning of the lecture. The Midterm is 1 hour long, and all exams are in-class, closed book and comprehensive.

Grading Policy:

The final grade will be computed as shown below:

Assignments 15%
Term-project 20%
In-class Presentation 10%
Quiz 10%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 25%

[97, 100] A+
[90, 97) A
[87, 90) A-
[85, 87) B+
[80, 85) B
[77, 80) B-
[75, 77) C+
[70, 75) C
[65, 70) C-
[56, 65) D+
[53, 56) D
[50, 53) D-
[0, 50) F

Dept. of Computer Science - Additional Green Sheet Information Required by the University

Academic Integrity:

Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at SJSU, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.

Additional Notes:

· If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible, or see me during office hours. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires that students with disabilities requesting accommodations register with the SJSU Disability Resource Center to establish a record of their disability.

· Please familiarize yourself with SJSU policies and procedures:

· http://info.sjsu.edu/static/soc-fall/soc-fall.html

· http://info.sjsu.edu/static/catalog/policies.html

particularly the add/drop policy. It is your responsibility to know and observe these policies. However, if there is something about a policy that you don't understand, please feel free to ask! You can also find answers to many questions at the Student Advising Center.

 For further greensheet information please see http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/greensheetinfo/index.html