Undergraduate Project Ideas:

• Virtual E-Commerce (WishForAnyThing.Com)
  • A hybrid of B2B and B2C e-commerce.
  • One step further than Kelkoo and PriceRunner.
  • Let the customer choose goods from a rang of suppliers (B2C), place order to the suppliers (B2B)
  • Suppliers deliver goods directly to the customer
  • You get commission for acting as a middle-man
  • Customer-Oriented-On Hold Background Music
• Automatic Identification of Data Objects/Classes from Requirement Specifications
  • Database design is usually performed manually by expert database designers/developers.
  • The process could be greatly simplified and make efficient if we identify objects/classes of interest to the domain model from requirements specifications, which are usually written in plain or structured English.
  • There are different techniques used for the task e.g., noun and noun phrases.
  • The project involves software engineering, object-oriented analysis and design, and database modelling and design.
• Database Design for Object-Relational Systems
  • There are quite a few methods/approaches for database design for relational databases. However, not much is available in terms of theory and practice, let alone a method, for database design for object-relational databases.
  • The project seeks to investigate ways in which an object-oriented conceptual database model could be turned into logical/physical object-relational design for implementation using an object-relational database management system.
• Investigations into disconnected database applications
  • The need for traveling or out in the feild salesmen, finance advisors, consultants, bird spotters, etc to be able to have access to a database that they can use and update and then hook up to a centralized database to syncronize i.e. provide new data to the central database server and download/refresh data of interest from the central to the laptops or hand held devices.
  • The project seeks to survey/review existing technologies that could be used for such applications, identify/choose a sample application, evaluate and choose methods and tools to develop the application.
• Personal Digital Image Cataloging
  • Over time we take, collect and receive hundrends and thousands of digital images.
  • Looking for images of interest in a large collection is time consuming and frustrating.
  • There is a need for a tool that could make storage and retrieval of images easy and efficient.
  • The project requies investigation into ways in which images could be stored in a database such that they could be later retrieved using simple and easy to recall searching criteria.
  • You may decide to look into different ways of classifying images (e.g., event, location, people, etc). Moreover, you may decide to investigate image retrieval by content or metadata or keywords.

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sigmod/index.html

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/vldb/index.html

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/edbt/index.html

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/bncod/index.html

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html