IT4BI, Semester 2, UFRT. Welcome address, February 1 st, 2013 Arnaud Giacometti / Patrick Marcel

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1 IT4BI, Semester 2, UFRT Welcome address, February 1 st, 2013 Arnaud Giacometti / Patrick Marcel

2 ! Population 50,000 inhabitants! Students 4,000! UNESCO Word Heritage wines, Renaissance royal castles! Climate : temperate Welcome to Blois!

3 Blois Campus Les Flandres Computer Science Dept. 3 place Jean Jaurès Registrar, teachers' offices Classrooms, labs, language resource center, Library Desfray University Restaurant 10 rue Anne de Bretagne CROUS office Rocheron More info on:

4 ! From Bachelor to doctoral degrees! Compliant with the Bologna framework! Salient features: vocational programmes, industrial partnership, connection with research! The degrees offered The degrees offered! Bachelor's degree in CS (75 students)! Master's degree in IS and BI (45 students)! Vocational Bachelor in IS quality and security (20 students)! PhD programme (5 students) Computer Science Dept.! European Bachelor's degree in CS! Erasmus Mundus Master IT4BI

5 Connection with research! Teaching staff! Part of the Computer Science Laboratory! Research focus on! Databases! Data mining, OLAP! XML and web services! Natural language processing! Automata and dictionaries! Man-machine interaction

6 ! Most Important Partners International Connection! Universidad Federal de Uberlandia (Brazil)! Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay)! Université Gaston Berger (Sénégal)! Universita di Bologna (Italy)! Université du Québec en Outaouais (Canada)! Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)! Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya (Spain)! Technische Universtät Berlin (Germany)

7 ! Staff! Head: Thomas Devogele (JJ 331)! IT4BI manager: Aurore Leroy (JJ 335)! IT4BI local coord.: Patrick Marcel (JJ 347)! Technician: Pierre-François Laurand (JJ 339)! 9 lecturers from the university! 5 teaching assistants! addresses: Computer Science Dept.! firstname.lastname@univ-tours.fr

8 Time Schedule! Classroom: JJ109 (1st floor)! Lab: JJ341! Time table on the web! emploidutemps.univ-tours.fr/etu 8:15 10:15 Break 10:30 12:30 Lunch break 14:00 16:00 Break 16:15 18:15

9 ! Ressources! Labs open access from 8am to 7pm! E-learning platform Celene: celene.univ-tours.fr! WiFi (to be activated by yourselves)! Mailing list: Complimentary laptop (Monday 4 th, 11:00, room JJ 102)! Library! Suaps (University sport)! CROUS Antenne de Blois! Facilities

10 Semester overview Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. 5 04/02/13 week /02/13 week /02/13 week /02/13 Feb. Break 9 04/03/13 week /03/13 week /03/13 week /03/13 week /04/13 week /04/13 week /04/13 Easter break 16 22/04/ /04/13 week /05/13 week /05/13 week /05/13 week /05/13 week /06/13 exam session /06/13 project defense 24 17/06/13 jury 25 24/06/ /07/13 exam session /07/13 summer school 28 15/07/13 jury 29 22/07/ /07/13

11 Syllabus! Advanced data warehousing (5 ECTS)! Knowledge discovery and data mining (5 ECTS)! XML and web technologies (5 ECTS)! Information retrieval (5 ECTS)! BI seminar (5 ECTS)! Humanities (5 ECTS) Syllabus! Specific details given at the beginning of each course

12 Master's thesis! Important Points! Presentations about BI! in the industry, in research activities! Next year s specialisations and master s thesis proposals! This year s contributors:! Speakers from the industry or research centers: Yahoo, Talend, ATOS, Umanis, INRIA! Invited scholars from Brazil, Canada, USA! Evaluation: a project conducted by pair! Focus on your upcoming specialisation! Review the related bibliography BI seminar! Connect it with this semester s presentations

13 Master's thesis! Agenda! Specialisations (btw. Feb. 6 th and March 6 th )! Feb. 6 th : UPC! Feb. 11 th : ECP! March 6 th : TUB! Deadline for choosing your specialisation! March 7 th! Project! Description of the project: mid February! Presentation of the topics chosen: March 18 th! Mid term defense: mid April! Defense: second week of June BI seminar

14 ! Important Points Humanities! French (for all of you), German or Spanish! Depending on your specialisation! Specialisation must be chosen by March 7 th! French language course starts Feb. 6 th! German and Spanish courses start mid-march! Language resource center (JJ 209) can be used! More detail at the beginning of each course

15 Evaluation: Main Rules (1)! The evaluation is divided in two parts! Classwork evaluations (continuous evaluation)! Can be a lab work, exercises, or a course project! The average note of these evaluations (one or two for each course) represents between 25% and 50% of the final grade! This kind of evaluation is highly flexible and specific to each course! A final exam for each course (at the end of the semester)! It represents usually from 50% to 75% of the final grade! This exam is evaluated by the Professor in charge of the course

16 Evaluation: Main Rules (2)! A compensation system between the different courses! Courses are evaluated altogether. The average of the grades you received during the semester must be greater than 10/20! Students who fail pass a retake exam! The retake exams take place 1 month after the first exam

17 ! 1 st session of Semester 2! 1 st week of June! Project defense! 2 nd week of June! Session 2 (retake) of Semester 2! 1 st week of July! Session 2 of Semester 1 (ULB exams)! 1 st week of July! Final results for Semester 1 and 2! Mid July Exams

18 Meeting with EACEA! EACEA is present for the IT4BI selection meeting next week (Feb. 7-8, 2013)! A meeting EACEA students will take place February 8 th, at 10:00am! We need volunteers to meet the EACEA:! At least one cat. A, one cat. B, one fee paying! At least one female, on male! At least one from each continent

19 ! 9 th French speaking seminar on Data warehouse and OLAP (eda2013.univ-tours.fr)! Blois, June 13-14, 2013! Conference and doctoral forum! 3 invited speakers! Yannick Cras (SAP/BO)! Alexander Löser (TU Berlin) EDA 2013! Panos Vassiliadis (Univ. Ioannina)

20 We welcome you in Blois and wish you success!