• Course description; general information
• Instructor
• Grading
• Important dates
• Student presentation timetable
• Reading list
• References

This graduate seminar will study current research on computational issues in e-commerce and the e-world. Students will read and analyze a selection of papers reporting results of recent research. Topics covered will be the computer and information science aspects of web anaylsis and indexing; web search and crawling; recommender systems and colloborative filtering; digital libraries, web databases, e-auctions, privacy and security, video information retrieval, etc. Students will read and analyze recent recent papers reporting results of recent reseach.

Instructor:

Professor Lee Giles

giles@ist.psu.edu

Office hours upon request.

Grades will be determined by the following:

• at least one, 35 - 40 minute presentation based on paper(s) from the research literature given in the reading list. Each presentation should be a summary and critique of the paper and topic. The presentation should give a brief introduction and overview of the area, discuss the issues presented in the paper, and bring up new research directions that are not addressed. Most of the presentation will to cover the papers assigned. The presentation should be in some eformat, such as powerpoint, and should be emailed to the instructor before the presentation.
• Students choose a presentation topic and paper from the reading list*. Every registered student must give a presentation or part of one.
• Presentation dates will be decided by September 4. Presentation dates cannot be changed and must be presented on the agreed date(s), as in a conference. Please give a presentation date preference.
• Students must have a presentation date set on the student presentation timetable and give part of that presentation to receive a grade!
• summaries of the "assigned topic" reading material, NOT TO EXCEED ONE PAGE IN LENGTH. Summaries should have at least 3 questions relating issues raised by the paper.
• Summaries are due the day before each presentation and should be sent to giles@ist.psu.edu; late summaries will not be accepted. The name of the student should be in the text of the summary; the email subject should be: CSE 579I Summary.
• class participation.

Important dates:
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First Class	Aug 28
Holiday - no class	Sept 4
Deadline for choice of topic covered by the presentation. Students who have not chosen a topic will be assigned one.	Students who do not have a topic, please email the instructor or do not take the course for credit.
Fall break - no class	Oct 9
Last class	Dec 4

 *Presentation choices should be emailed anytime after they become available, so the email time can be used for 1st come, 1st served scheduling. This date has been changed since there is no class Sept 4.

 Reading list:
(Note: all papers should be available electronically; if not, please contact the instructor)*
*If a topic you are interested in is not on the list, please consult with the instructor.