What should be included in Your Proposal
In your proposal (no more than 3 pages), you should make clear the following:
1. what you're going to do
2. why it is a useful project
3. how the project should be evaluated in your view
4. what will be the values of your project when it's done
The proposal is basically a rough outline of your project report.
A good beginning is half the success.
Projects
The following list of project types is suggested for your reference. Students
can choose to work on one topic or to attack other big problems suggested
by the students after discussing with the instructor.
Group a. Survey
You should ONLY choose this type of projects if you are quite familiar
with
the subfield you wish to survey; otherwise, you're advised NOT to do it.
A survey should follow the style in ACM Computing Surveys. Extensiveness,
comprehensibility, technical worthiness are major considerations. The
completed survey should be in such a shape that can lead to a tutorial material
or a journal paper.
Group b. Real-world problem identification, analysis and solution
You are encouraged to study your organization's problems and needs for
data mining. Ng et al98 is a good example of real world data mining (see
Huan Liu's Publications Web Page). You should include your detailed plan
in the proposal.
Group c. Research Topics
Novel ideas or methods for the work to be claimed as an excellent piece
of
research work. You should discuss the novelty and significance and feasibility
of your ideas or methods.
Group d. Building an environment
You will help install, implement, or maintain some data mining
systems. The end result of an implementation project should be a self
contained system/component that should be thoroughly tested and can be
of real use.
Please find some project ideas in our first set of slides of Introduction.
Prepared by Huan Liu
on Jan 30, 2003
Last updated: Jan 30, 2003