Course Introduction

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Course Introduction

• Dr. Shiyong Lu
• shiyong_at_cs.wayne.edu
• Wayne State Univesrity

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About the Instructor

• Advising students
• Teaching database classes
• Research on scientific workflows

Dr. Shiyong Lu
http//www.cs.wayne.edu/shiyong/
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CSC8710Seminar on Database Management Systems 

• Time 600-720PM TuTh
• Place State Hall 318
• Webpage http//www.cs.wayne.edu/shiyong/csc8710/
  csc8710.html

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What is this course about?

• An overview of Workflow management
• Read papers on scientific workflows
• Develop some scientific workflows
• Taste research on scientific workflows

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Goal of the course

• Knowledge of workflow management and
  state-of-the-art scientific workflow research.
• Advance the scientific workflow field a bit (if
  you can).

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Prerequisite

• CSC6710 Or with the permission of the instructor
• Java, JDBC and SQL programming

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Instructors office hours

• Instructor
• Shiyong Lu (shiyong_at_wayne.edu)
• Office 14012.1 Maccabees bldg 
• Telephone [phone]
• Office hours Tu, Th 330-430PM or by
  appointment.

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TA office hours

• None
• Office TBA
• Telephone TBA
• Office hours TBA.

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Course load and grading

• (85 ) Present 34 papers.
• (15) A course project and a demo.

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Late work penalty

• You can have one late assignment submission up to
  one week without any penalty. Please email me in
  advance when you need to use your execuse. If
  late excuse is not used, a penalty of 2 per day
  will be assessed up to one week. No credits will
  be given for works handed in one week after the
  due date. The late excuse cannot be used for the
  final project. 

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Academic honesty

• Copying an assignment from another student in
  this class or obtaining a solution from some
  other source will lead to an automatic failure
  for this course and to a disciplinary action.
  Allowing another student to copy one's work will
  be treated as an act of academic dishonesty,
  leading to the same penalty as copying.

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Assignment 1

1. Sign up for the dates that you will give
   presentations.
2. Discuss with the instructor about the topics and
   papers that you will present.
3. Download the papers and start to read them.