IT4BI, Semester 2, UFRT

Welcome address, February 1st, 2013 Arnaud Giacometti / Patrick Marcel

!   Population – 50,000 inhabitants ! Students – 4,000 !   UNESCO Word Heritage – wines,

Renaissance royal castles ! Climate : temperate

Welcome to Blois!

Computer Science Dept. 3 place Jean Jaurès

Registrar, teachers' offices Classrooms, labs, language resource center, Library

University Restaurant 10 rue Anne de Bretagne

CROUS office

Blois Campus

More info on:http://it4bi.univ-tours.fr/medias/pdfs/IT4BI_student-guideLD.pdf

Rocheron

Les Flandres

Desfray

The degrees offered

!   From Bachelor to doctoral degrees !   Compliant with the Bologna framework !   Salient features: vocational programmes,

industrial partnership, connection with research

!   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) !   European Bachelor's degree in CS !   Erasmus Mundus Master IT4BI

Computer Science Dept.

!   Teaching staff !   Part of the Computer Science Laboratory

! www.li.univ-tours.fr

!   Research focus on  !   Databases

!   Data mining, OLAP !   XML and web services

!   Natural language processing !   Automata and dictionaries !   Man-machine interaction

Connection with research

!   Most Important Partners ! 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)

International Connection

!   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

!   Email addresses: ! firstname.lastname@univ-tours.fr

Computer Science Dept.

Time Schedule

!   Classroom: JJ109 (1st floor) !   Lab: JJ341

!   Time table on the web ! emploidutemps.univ-tours.fr/etu

8:15 – 10:15

10:30 – 12:30

Break

Lunch break

14:00 – 16:00

16:15 – 18:15

Break

! Ressources !   Labs open access from 8am to 7pm !   E-learning platform Celene: celene.univ-tours.fr ! WiFi (to be activated by yourselves) !   Mailing list: http://listes.univ-tours.fr/wws/info/it4bi-students !   Complimentary laptop (Monday 4th, 11:00, room JJ 102)

!   Library ! http://www.scd.univ-tours.fr/bibli-web/bibli-blois.asp

! Suaps (University sport) ! http://www.univ-tours.fr/suaps

!   CROUS Antenne de Blois ! http://www.crous-orleans-tours.fr

Facilities

Semester overview

Feb.  

5   04/02/13       week  1  6   11/02/13       week  2  7   18/02/13       week  3  8   25/02/13       Feb.  Break  

Mar.  

9   04/03/13       week  4  10   11/03/13       week  5  11   18/03/13       week  6  12   25/03/13       week  7  

Apr.  

13   01/04/13       week  8  14   08/04/13       week  9  15   15/04/13       Easter  break  16   22/04/13          17   29/04/13       week  10  

May  

18   06/05/13       week  11  19   13/05/13       week  12  20   20/05/13       week  13  21   27/05/13       week  14  

Jun.  

22   03/06/13       exam  session  1  23   10/06/13       project  defense  24   17/06/13       jury  25   24/06/13          

Jul.  

26   01/07/13       exam  session  2  27   08/07/13   summer  school  28   15/07/13       jury  29   22/07/13          30   29/07/13          

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)

!   Specific details given at the beginning of each course

Syllabus

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 !   Connect it with this semester’s presentations

BI seminar

Master's thesis !   Agenda

! Specialisations (btw. Feb. 6th and March 6th) !   Feb. 6th: UPC !   Feb. 11th: ECP !   March 6th: TUB

!   Deadline for choosing your specialisation !   March 7th

!   Project !   Description of the project: mid February !   Presentation of the topics chosen: March 18th !   Mid term defense: mid April !   Defense: second week of June

BI seminar

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

Humanities

!   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

Evaluation: Main Rules (1)

!   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

Evaluation: Main Rules (2)

!   1st session of Semester 2 !   1st week of June

!   Project defense !   2nd week of June

!   Session 2 (retake) of Semester 2 !   1st week of July

!   Session 2 of Semester 1 (ULB exams) !   1st week of July

!   Final results for Semester 1 and 2 !   Mid July

Exams

!   EACEA is present for the IT4BI selection meeting next week (Feb. 7-8, 2013)

!   A meeting EACEA – students will take place February 8th, 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

Meeting with EACEA

!   9th 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) ! Panos Vassiliadis (Univ. Ioannina)

EDA 2013

We welcome you in Blois and wish you success!