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-====== MFE 2016-2017 : Web and Information Systems ======
+====== MFE 2017-2018 : Web and Information Systems ======
 ===== Introduction =====
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 <note>Please note that this list of subjects is **not exhaustive. Interested students are invited to propose original subjects.**</note>
-{{:teaching:mfe:euranova_thesis_2016.pdf|}}
 ===== Master Thesis in Collaboration with Euranova =====
-Our laboratory performs collaborative research with Euranova R&D (http://euranova.eu/). The list of subjects proposed for this year by Euranova can be found {{:teaching:mfe:euranova_thesis_2016.pdf|here}}
+Our laboratory performs collaborative research with Euranova R&D (http://euranova.eu/). The list of subjects proposed for this year by Euranova can be found {{:teaching:mfe:euranova_masterthesis_2017.pdf|here}}.
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   * Contact : [[ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be|Esteban Zimanyi]]
+** Dynamic Query Processing on GPU Accelerators
+   This master thesis is put forward in the context of the DFAQ
+   Research Project:  "Dyanmic Processing of Frequently Asked
+   Queries", funded by the Wiener-Anspach foundation.
+   Within this project, our lab is hence developing novel ways for
+   processing "fast Big Data", i.e., processing of analytical queries
+   where the underlying data is constantly being updated.  The
+   analytics problems envisioned cover wide areas of computer science
+   and include database aggregate queries, probabilistic inference,
+   matrix chain computation, and building statistical models.
+   The objective of this master thesis is to build upon the novel
+   dynamic processing algorithms being developed in the lab, and
+   complement these algorithms by proposing dynamic evaluation
+   algorithms that execute on modern GPU architectures, thereby
+   exploiting their massive parallel processing capabilities.
+   Since our current development is done in the Scala programming
+   language, prospective students should either know Scala, or being
+   willing to learn it within the context of the master thesis.
+   *Validation of the approach* Validation of master thesis' work
+   should be done on two levels:
+  - a theoretical level; by proposing and discussing alternative ways
+    to do incremental computation on GPU architectures, and comparing
+    these from a theoretical complexity viewpoint
+  - an experimental level; by proposing a benchmark collection of CEP
+    queries that can be used to test the obtained versions of the
+    interpreter/compiler, and report on the experimentally observed
+    performance on this benchmark.
+  *Deliverables* of the master thesis project
+   - An overview of query processing on GPUs
+   - A definition of the analytics queries under consideration
+   - A description of different possible dynamic evaluation algorithms
+     for the analytical queries on GPU architectures.
+   - A theoretical comparison of these possibilities
+   - The implementaiton of the evaluation algorithm(s) (as an interpreter/compiler)
+   - A benchmark set of queries and associated data sets for
+     the experimental validation
+   - An experimental validation of the compiler, and analysis of the results.
+   *Interested?*
+   - Contact :  [[svsummer@ulb.ac.be][Stijn Vansummeren]]
+   *Status*: available
+** Complex Event Processing in Apache Spark and Apache Storm
+  The master thesis is put forward in the context of the SPICES
+  "Scalable Processing and mIning of Complex Events for
+  Security-analytics" research project, funded by Innoviris.
+  Within this project, our lab is developping a declarative language
+  for Complex Event Processing (CEP for short). The goal in Complex
+  Event Processing is to derive pre-defined patterns in a stream of
+  raw events. Raw events are typically sensor readings (such as
+  "password incorrect for user X trying to log in on machine Y" or
+  "file transfer from machine X to machine Y"). The goal of CEP is
+  then to correlate these events into complex events. For example,
+  repeated failed login attempts by X to Y should trigger a complex
+  event "password cracking warning" that refers to all failed login
+  attempts.
+  The objective of this master thesis is to build an
+  interpreter/compiler for this declarative CEP language that targets
+  the distributed computing frameworks Apache Spark and/or Apache
+  Storm as backends.  Getting aquaintend with these technologies is
+  part of the master thesis objective.
+  *Validation of the approach* Validation of the proposed
+  interpreter/compiler should be done on two levels:
+  - a theoretical level; by comparing the generated Spark/Storm
+    processors to a processor based on "Incremental computation" that
+    is being developped at the lab
+  - an experimental level; by proposing a benchmark
+    collection of CEP queries that can be used to test the obtained
+    interpreter/compiler, and report on the experimentally observed
+    performance on this benchmark.
+  *Deliverables* of the master thesis project
+   - An overview of the processing models of Spark and Storm
+   - A definition of the declarative CEP language under consideration
+   - A description of the interpretation/compilation algorithm
+   - A theoretical comparison of this algorithm wrt an incremental
+     evaluation algorithm.
+   - The interpreter/compiler itself (software artifact)
+   - A benchmark set of CEP queries and associated data sets for
+     the experimental validation
+   - An experimental validation of the compiler, and analysis of the results.
+   *Interested?*
+   - Contact :  [[svsummer@ulb.ac.be][Stijn Vansummeren]]
+   *Status*: available
+** Graph Indexing  for Fast Subgraph Isomorphism Testing
+   There is an increasing amount of scientific data, mostly from the
+   bio-medical sciences, that can be represented as collections of
+   graphs (chemical molecules, gene interaction networks, ...). A
+   crucial operation when searching in this data is that of subgraph
+   isomorphism testing: given a pattern P that one is interested in
+   (also a graph) in and a collection D of graphs (e.g., chemical
+   molecules), find all graphs in G that have P as a
+   subgraph. Unfortunately, the subgraph isomorphism problem is
+   computationally intractable. In ongoing research, to enable
+   tractable processing of this problem, we aim to reduce the number
+   of candidate graphs in D to which a subgraph isomorphism test needs
+   to be executed. Specifically, we index the graphs in the collection
+   D by means of decomposing them into graphs for which subgraph
+   isomorphism *is* tractable. An associated algorithm that filters
+   graphs that certainly cannot match P can then formulated based on
+   ideas from information retrieval.
+   In this master thesis project, the student will emperically
+   validate on real-world datasets the extent to which graphs can be
+   decomposed into graphs for which subgraph isomorphism is
+   tractable, and run experiments to validate the effectiveness of
+   the proposed method in terms of filtering power.
+   *Interested?*
+   - Contact :  [[svsummer@ulb.ac.be][Stijn Vansummeren]]
+   *Status*: available
 ===== Complex Event Processing in Apache Spark and Apache Storm =====
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 **Status**: available
-===== A Scala-based runtime and compiler for Distributed Datalog =====
-Datalog is a fundamental query language in datamanagement based on logic programming. It essentially extends select-from-where SQL queries with recursion. There is a recent trend in data management research to use datalog to specify distributed applications, most notably on the web, as well as do inference on the semantic web. The goal of this thesis is to engineer a basic **distributed datalog system**, i.e., a system that is capable of compiling & running distributed datalog queries. The system should be implemented in the Scala programming language. Learning Scala is part of the master thesis project.
+=====Sentiment Analysis=====
-The system should:
-  * incorporate recently proposed worst-case join algorithms (i.e., the [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0481|leapfrog trie join]])
-  * employ known local datalog optimizations (such as magic sets and QSQ)
-**Validation of the approach** The thesis should propose a benchmark collection of datalog queries and associated data workloads that be used to test the obtained system, and measure key performance characteristics (elasticity of the system; memory frootprint; overall running time, ...)
+The sentiment analysis task aims to detect subjective information polarity in the target text by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP), text analysis and computational linguistics techniques. With the emergence of web 2.0, it becomes easy for Internet users to post their opinionated comments and share their thoughts via social networks, forums and especially Twitter. With more resources and NLP tools becoming available and with the recent developed sentiment lexicons, sentiment analysis is having more attention from the research community. Nevertheless, Named Entities (NEs) effectiveness was not studied even though it is easily noticeable that social resources include many NEs. In ongoing research, we aim to investigate the effectiveness of Named Entities (person, location and organization entities) on sentiment analysis and dive beyond the Named Entities recognition to propose a framework of Named Entities polarity classification and process an empirical evaluation on their effectiveness on Sentiment classification.
-**Required reading**:
+In this master thesis project, the student will empirically validate on real-world datasets the effectiveness of Named Entities (person, location and organization entities) on sentiment analysis and run experiments on different languages (French, Dutch, English and German).
-  * Datalog and Recursive Query Processing - Foundations and trends in query processing.
-  * LogicBlox, Platform and Language: A Tutorial (Todd J. Green, Molham Aref, and Grigoris Karvounarakis)
-  * Dedalus: Datalog in Time and Space (Peter Alvaro, William R. Marczak, Neil Conway, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David Maier, and Russell Sears)
-  * Declarative Networking (Loo et al). For the distributed evaluation strategy.
-  * Parallel processing of recursive queries in distributed architectures (VLDB 1989)
-  * Evaluating recursive queries in distributed databases (IEEE trans knowledge and data engieneering, 1993)
-**Deliverables**:
+**Interested?** Contact : [[haddad.hatem@gmail.com|Hatem Haddad]]
-  * Semantics of datalog; overview of known optimization strategies (document)
-  * Description of the leapfrog trie join (document)
-  * Datalog system (software artifact)
-  * Experimental analysis of developped system on a number of use cases (document)
-**Interested?**
-  * Contact : [[stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be|Stijn Vansummeren]]
 **Status**: available
-===== Développement d’un système de gestion de l’information pour un réseau de dépistage et de suivi des lésions précancéreuses et cancéreuses du col de l’utérus dans la Région de Cochabamba en Bolivie =====
-Full description available here:{{:teaching:mfe:mfe_u_bio-mechatronics_codepo_01.docx|}}
-**Interested?**
-  * Contact :   * Contact : [[stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be|Stijn Vansummeren]]
-**Status**: available
 =====Publishing and Using Spatio-temporal Data on the Semantic Web=====
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 **Status**: available
-=====Assessing Existing Communication Protocols In The Context Of DaaS =====
-Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) is an emerging cloud model. The main offering of DaaS is to allow data producers/owners to publish data services on the cloud. The idea of publishing data via a service interface is not new. SOA protocols have enabled this long ago. Yet, these protocols were not developed with the cloud and the big data in mind. This is probably why the term DaaS has emerged. It marks the need for protocols and tools that enable big data exchange.
-DaaS services need to exchange large amounts of data. Large here refers to large message size, large message count, or a combination of both. RESTful services, for instance, communicate over HTTP, which is not a good choice for communicating large messages/files. SOAP services are not bound to HTTP, but they introduce another overhead of requiring messages to be strictly formatted in XML. This is why researchers started to reconsider older protocols like the BitTorrent, and suggesting extension to existing protocols like the SOAP with Attachments.
-The topic of this thesis is to perform a comprehensive survey on the protocols data exchange, and assess their suitability for DaaS. A quantitative comparison of protocols need to be done, considering at least these two dimensions: (1) the protocol: SOAP, REST, BitTorrent, etc, and (2) the message: short inline, long inline, file. The assessment should be in terms of reliability, performance, and security.
-**Deliverables** of the master thesis project
-  * A report that reviews the state of art communication protocols.
-  * Propose a tool for DaaS developers to choose the best protocol/s based on their application needs. Such a tool might also provide means of automatically switching between protocols on certain thresholds.
-  * Experiments to assess the suitability of protocols for DaaS, and to compare between them. These experiments need to be repeatable, so that others can use them on their own datasets and configurations.
-**Interested?**
-  * Contact : [[ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be|Esteban Zimanyi]]
-**Status**: available