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| The course PROJ-H-402 is managed by Dr. Mauro Birattari. Please refer to the course description page http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/proj-h-402/index.php/Main_Page for the rules concerning the project. What follows is a list of project proposals supervised by academic members of CoDE. | The course PROJ-H-402 is managed by Dr. Mauro Birattari. Please refer to the course description page http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/proj-h-402/index.php/Main_Page for the rules concerning the project. What follows is a list of project proposals supervised by academic members of CoDE. | ||
| - | ===== Project proposals ===== | + | ===== Projects in Mobility Databases ===== |
| - | ==== Development of a Personal Scientific Digital Library Management System ==== | + | Mobility databases (MOD) are database systems that can store and manage moving object geospatial trajectory data. A moving object is an object that changes its location over time (e.g., a car driving on the road network). Using a variety of sensors, the location tracks of moving objects can be recorded in digital formats. A MOD, then, helps storing and querying such data. A couple of prototype systems have been proposed by research groups. Yet, a mainstream system is by far still missing. By mainstream we mean that the development builds on widely accepted tools, that are actively being maintained and developed. A mainstream system would exploit the functionality of these tools, and would maximize the reuse of their ecosystems. As a result, it becomes more closer to end users, and easily adopted in the industry. |
| - | In this project, the student is asked to construct a software system to help manage large collections of scientific papers in digital form. Specifically, the system must be able to: | + | Towards filling this gap, our group is building the MobilityDB system [[https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB|https://github.com/MobilityDB/MobilityDB]]. It builds on PostGIS, which is a spatial database extension of PostgreSQL. MobilityDB extends the type system of PostgreSQL and PostGIS with ADTs for representing moving object data. It defines, for instance, the tgeompoint type for representing a time dependant geometry point. MobilityDB types are well integrated into the platform, to achieve maximal reusability, hence a mainstream development. For instance, the tgeompoint type builds on the PostGIS geometry(point) type. Similarly MobilityDB builds on existing operations, indexing, and optimization framework. |
| - | - Scan a given filesystem location for given filetypes (PDFs, EPUB, ...) containing scientific articles. | + | |
| - | - Extract the metadata from each identified file. Here, the metadata includes the title of the article, its authors, the publishing venue, the publisher, the year of publication, the article's abstract ... The development of an intelligent way to retreive this metadata is requried. This could be done, for example by a combination of parsing the file, contacting the internet repositories of known publishers (AMC, Springer, Elsevier) etc to retrieve the data. | + | |
| - | - Offer search capabilities, in order to allow a user to find all indexed articles matching certain criteria (title, author, ...) | + | |
| - | - Offer archiving capabilities | + | |
| - | Use of semantic web technologies (RDF, SPARQL, ...) to store and search the metadata is encouraged. | + | MobilityDB supports SQL as query interface. Currently it is quite rich in terms of types and functions. It is incubated as community project in OSGeo [[https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mobilitydb/|https://www.osgeo.org/projects/mobilitydb/]], which certifies high technical quality. |
| - | **Contact** : Stijn Vansummeren (stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be) | + | The following project ideas contribute to different parts of MobilityDB. They all constitute innovative development, mixing both research and development. They hence will help developing the student skills in: |
| - | **Status**: available | + | * Understanding the theory and the implementation of moving object databases. |
| + | * Understanding the architecture of extensible databases, in this case PostgreSQL. | ||
| + | * Writing open source software. | ||
| - | ==== Curriculum Revision Assistant ==== | + | ==== Project proposals ==== |
| - | In this project, the student is asked to construct a software system that can assist in the revision of teaching curricula (also known as teaching programs). The system should have the following functionalities: | ||
| - | - It should be able to load existing curricula from the ULB central administration. This could be done, for example, by parsing the webpages available at banner (the Civil Engineering in CS program is available at http://banssbfr.ulb.ac.be/PROD_frFR/bzscrse.p_disp_prog_detail?term_in=201314&prog_in=MA-IRIF&lang=FRENCH, for example). | ||
| - | - It should allow to make different versions of the teaching programs, much in the same way as version control systems like GIT and subversion offer the possibility to make different "development branches" of a program's source code. | ||
| - | - It should allow to analyze the modifications proposed in the teaching programs, and summarize the impact that these changes could have on other programs. (For example, if a course is removed from the computer science curriculum, it should also be removed from all curricula that included the course.) | ||
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| - | **Contact** : Stijn Vansummeren (stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be) | ||
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| - | **Status**: available | ||