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 lecturer.
Group a. Survey
You should only choose this type of projects if you are quite familar 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
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.
You
should discuss with the instructor about your detailed plan.
Group c. Research Topics
Novel ideas or methods for the work to be claimed as an excellent piece
of
research work. You should discuss with the instructor about the novelty
and
significance of your ideas or methods.
Group d. Building an environment
You will help instal, 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. You should discuss with the instructor for more details.
Prepared by Huan Liu
on Jan 2, 2002
Last updated: Jan 14, 2002