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When: 26 October 2007, 15.45 h. - 17.30 h.
Where: WA-220

Four presentations:

15.45 h. - 16.15 h. : Tools for GIS applications by Tim Klifman & Niels Werensteijn
16.15 h. - 16.35 h. : CSI Twente: Algemeen Delictensysteem by Jonathan Brugge & Eelco Eerenberg
16.35 h. - 16.50 h. : break
16.50 h. - 17.10 h. : Indicating the Shortest Path (in Kalimantan) by Robert Markovics & Pythia Sulistyo
17.10 h. - 17.30 h. : CrisGIS: simulation of crisises on geo data by Tijn van Hofwegen & Jorrit Schippers

NB the first presenters will have about 30 minutes (project A). The others (project B) have about 20 minutes.

Time and Place of next week’s lecture on 17 October is changed to:

WA-204, at 10.40h. - 12.25h.

I would like to ask everyone to be present at the guest lecture. Martin Engels comes all the way from Leiden to talk about GIS. If you are unable to come, please let me know as soon as possile.

Title: GIS and Geodatabases: the ESRI approach
Speaker: Martin Engels, ESRI Netherlands
Room: WA-204
When: Wednesday 17 October 2007, 10:40 h. - 12:25 h.

About ESRI:
ESRI designs and develops the world’s leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS is an important tool - one that helps shape the world around us. GIS technology helps fight forest fires, determine new national boundaries during peace negotiations, find promising sites for fast-growing companies, rebuild cities around the world, support optimal land-use planning, route emergency vehicles, monitor rain forest depletion, contain oil spills, and perform countless other vital tasks every day. Today, ESRI has more than 4,000 skilled employees worldwide who work with hundreds of business partners and tens of thousands of users.

I’ve put the project assignment for Advanced Database Systems on TeleTOP. Please send me as soon as possible the following information: 1) what project you plan to do (A or B), and 2) the name of the person you want to cooperate with.
Please note that the deadline for handing in the practicum assignment was last week: 25 September. If you have not handed in practicum results, and you want to keep on following the course, please do so today.

Some students reported trouble logging in on the practicum machine outhouse. These problems occur because the faculty is replacing NIS by some other system to manage network accounts (and student accounts are the last ones to make the transfer). If you have difficulties logging in, please follow the new instructions in the practicum manual.

Please note that the mini practicum Advanced Databases takes place next Friday 21 Septemter first thing (at 8.30 h. in Oost-6). The practicum description and data can be downloaded from the Archive section on TeleTOP. The assignment can be done in groups of two persons.n Deadline for handing in results: 26 September.

Welcome to ADS! This course will have a little bit of everything: traditional lectures, home work assignments (on a voluntary basis), a small (half a day) practicum assignment, a small project, and a written exam. You are going to learn how relational databases work in practice: what happens inside the system when an SQL query is executed? In the 2nd part of the course, we are going to discuss applications for which relational databases do not provide a perfect solution: object-oriented data, semi-structured data, distributed data and online analytical processing. See you in September,
Djoerd.

GIS Project presentations at 13.45 h. in WA-204 An overview of the Advanced Database Systems Project Results
with the following presentations: “The GIS project demo”
by Yoran Bosman, Pieter van den Brink, and Corneel Hindriks “Beyond Roermond”
by Marten Sijtema and Jan-Henk Gerritsen

Tomorrow, Tuesday 24 October, is the dead line for sending in the prepared presentations (including e.g. a Powerpoint slide show) of about half an hour. The next day, on Wednesday 25 October, I will announce the lucky winners that will be asked to give the presentation to all of us on Friday 27 October.

The example results for the mini practicum Advanced Database Systems can now be found on TeleTOP under ‘Archive’.

The GIS project assignment can be found on TeleTOP under ‘Archive’. Please form groups of 2 - 3 persons and email me before 4 October 2006 the following information:

• the persons in the group
• what assignment will the group do: subproject A or subproject B?

Dead line of the project: 24 October 2006. Project end presentations are scheduled on Friday 27 October 2006 at 5/6 hour.