CS329
Fall 1998
Project Proposal Instructions
Due at beginning of class, Tue., Nov. 10
You need to start thinking about what you plan to do for the term project.
Please do not hesitate to discuss your project ideas with me or the TA.
The following is a list of questions to help you get started:
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What problems might be amenable to SAL-like approach? These problems could
come from your research domains or other problems that interest you.
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What is the task to be accomplished? It could be mining patterns
from MRI medical data, diagnosing faults in electro-mechanical systems,
or generating explanations for a web index using proximity relations, ...
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Do you have access to the data?
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How would you describe your problem in a way that matches the input requirement
of spatial aggregation?
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Do you have enough domain knowledge to solve the problem? If so,
how would you code the knowledge using SAL like operators?
Once you have picked a domain, try to pick a small problem from that domain
and conceptualize your approach using the problem. This way you will know
what some of the major bottlenecks might be and get prepared. If
you feel strongly about using a particular computational environment other
than SAL for the implementation, you will need to discuss it with me.
For this part, your task is to prepare a two-page-or-more project
proposal that describes, at the very minimum:
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The project goal
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Problem statement: input, desired output, task
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How you might structure the input-to-output transformation using SAL-like
operators
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How you plan to implement the program
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How you will test your implementation and where the test data will come
from
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Project schedule/milestones