TUM Informatik III: Advanded Seminar Next Generation Internet Services

TU München - Fakultät für Informatik
Lehrstuhl III: Datenbanksysteme

Building Next Generation Internet Services for Fun and Profit

Advanced Seminar in Informatics (Winter term 2006/2007)

Supervisors

Dean Jacobs, Ph.D.; Prof. Alfons Kemper, Ph.D.; Stefan Aulbach

In this seminar, we will investigate the latest generation of Internet Services that are appearing for both consumers and the enterprise. We will study a range of issues including what these services offer, how they are implemented, and how their business models work. Our goals will be to find interesting research questions AND to generate viable new business ideas.

Web 2.0 Prototype

Christos has implemented some fine stuff.

Topics

The following list is just a draft. More information to come...

Large consumer services and the technologies behind them, e.g.

Web 2.0 startups

Enterprise Software as a Service

Salesforce
Software as a Service

Literature

Dean Jacobs. Enterprise Software as Service. ACM Queue Magazine. July/August (2005)
Dean Jacobs. Data Management in Application Servers. Readings in Database Systems 4th edition. Eds. Michael Stonebraker and Joseph Hellerstein. MIT Press. (2005)
Bill Gallagher, Dean Jacobs, Anno Langen: A high-performance, transactional filestore for application servers. SIGMOD Conference 2005: 868-872

Requirements

Please review this site at regular intervals. Changes of planning, talks or other changes will be announced here.
Have a look at our requirements (in German) for taking part in our seminars.
Attendence required to all talks!
This seminar will be held in English!

Topics & Schedule

Date	Lecturer	Topic	Links
20.07.2006	Dean Jacobs & Stefan Aulbach	Introduction and organizational questions	(PDF)

18.10.2006
25.10.2006
01.11.2006	Allerheiligen
08.11.2006
15.11.2006
22.11.2006	Dean Jacobs	Next Generation Internet Services
29.11.2006	Stefan Aulbach	Introduction to QoS, SLA and Adaptive Computing
06.12.2006	Konrad Lindner	SAAS - a Solution for IT-Challenges in the Medicine
13.12.2006	Xueming Pan	Ebay and online auction in China
20.12.2006	Vladislav Lazarov	VoIP and Web 2.0 (Draft title)
27.12.2006	Holidays
03.01.2007	Holidays
10.01.2007	Yifan Wang	Google PageRank (Draft title)
17.01.2007	Axel Landschoof	How Google Collects Personal Data
24.01.2007	Achim Landschoof	Recommendations at Amazon
30.01.2007	Christos Toutoutzidis	Implementation of a Internet Service (Draft title)

News & Dates

Date	Message
14.07.2006	Start of registration process
20.07.2006	Preliminary meeting
28.07.2006	Give precise topics
01.08.2006	Schedule is online
29.08.2006	Updated schedule
08.11.2006	Updated schedule

Planning

Organizational Questions
Date	On Wednesdays, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Required attendence to all presentations and active discussion in the seminar.
Location	FMI Garching, Boltzmannstr. 3, Ted-Codd-Seminarraum (02.09.014) (2nd floor, between module 9 and 11)
Registration	For registering please send an email to Please include the following: Salutation (Ms./Mr.) Name, Prename matriculation number Your current term Your study course (e.g. Informatik Diplom) Preferences on topics First come, first served.
Withdrawal (B.Sc., M.Sc. only)	Riskless until 15.09.2006. Seminars are part of your Bachelor/Master exam, so if you withdraw your topic after that date, your topic will be graded "5.0 nicht bestanden (nicht erschienen)".
First meeting	Thursday, 20.07.2006, Room MI 01.12.035, 2h p.m. - 4h p.m.
Intended Audience	Diplom Informatik Bachelor Informatik Bachelor Wirtschaftsinformatik Bachelor Informatik, Schwerpunkt Datenbanksysteme Master Informatik
Time Line	ASAP -- pick general topic By Sept 15 -- meet with Dean to choose material At least 2 times before presentation -- meet with Dean to check progress 3 weeks before presentation -- publish links to material for others to read 3 days before presentation -- slides to Dean 3 weeks after presentation -- final report to Dean

Lehrstuhl für Datenbanksysteme
Letzte Änderung: 08.12.2006 um 10:09:37