TDT02 - Advanced, distributed systems (Autumn 2024)

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Advanced, distributed systems (Autumn 2024)

Svein Erik Bratsberg is the responsible teacher for the course. For more information, email (sveinbra at ntnu.no).

Course

Since we cannot use home exams anymore due to ChatGPT, exam has to be oral. This will limit the number of students who are allowed to join this course severly. In principle, only students belonging to database and search are allowed to take this course. The course is a colloquium. We have planned 3 meetings. Startup is 17. Sep. Everything is probably going to be virtual through Teams, since we have lost our meeting rooms in IT-vest.

• 17 Sep 2.15-3.00, Teams, Startup, who presents which articles
• 15 Oct 2.15-4pm, Teams, Magnus/Herman, Jonatan, Oskar
• 29 Oct 2.15-4pm, Teams, Vegard, Sreedevi/Skage, Axel
• 28 Nov from 09.00AM: Oral exam.

Organization

Each presentation in the colloqium should be about 20 minutes. The slides from the presentations will be linked in from this page. Use either powerpoint or a Google slides or similar. Oral exam on the day decided by the department.

Syllabus

This course is for those who are deaply interested in databases, database technolgy and distributed systems. You should be a student at "Databases and search", and this year we cannot allow students who are not specifically working on database kernels / cores. Since you are especially interested in databases, please send me a suggestion for your favourite database paper. It should be relevant for your project work. Two students could also present a paper together.

This years' papers

1. From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases. Skage and Sreedevi
2. A Highly-Available Move Operation for Replicated Trees. Jonatan
3. JSON Tiles: Fast Analytics on Semi-Structured Data. Magnus og Herman
4. NLP Techniques for Term Extraction and Ontology Population. Axel
5. From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization. Vegard
6. Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based join sampling. Oskar

A presentation could focus on the following aspects:

1. Motivation -- what problems are solved?
2. Application domain?
3. Methods?
4. Architecture?
5. Test results?
6. Conclusions?
7. Other interesting things??

(Confirmed) Participants in 2024

Skage
Herman
Magnus
Sreedevi
Vegard
Axel
Jonatan
Oskar