[Yigit Ilguner]Weekly Report-05.11.09

This week, I searched “path finding” algorithms such as A*, B*, Beam search, D* Lite. I also read some documents about these path finding algorithms. For D* Lite, you can get more information from http://idm-lab.org/bib/abstracts/papers/aaai02b.pdf which was written by Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev. Other documents will be provided soon. Moreover, we had communicated with several supermarkets in Ankara such as Carrefour, Praktiker, Vatan Bilgisayar, Migros, and Media Markt to get requirements and market plan. Carrefour accepted to give their market plan and inform us about requirements. I also took a look at data mining on internet. Next week, I am going to do more detaied search about data mining.

[Hasan Kose]Weekly Report-05.11.09

In this week, we examined functionalities of some kiosk solution softwares available such as Deli Kiosk Solution and Tesco TV, that we have also mentioned in our proposal report. Additionally I made some internet research on supermarket kiosk solutions to gain some general information. We also contacted many retails in Ankara by phone and mail. One of them, Carrefour Cepa, we went and discussed about the project, saw their plans and obtained them by e-mail. They are willing to be our sponsor and provide us with whatever we need. I am now planning to do some extensive reading on Data Mining and read more about existing kiosk solutions, especially feedback provided by customers.

[Hasan Serdar Adali] Weekly Report-05.11.09

For this week, i have searched for several applications of wayfinding kiosk through the internet.Especially I examined "The Wayfinding Software" which presents 3D modeled wayfinding software for several areas including shopping malls and "the Wallflower Navigation" which provides a perfect user-interface for wayfinding softwares on kiosks.I send emails to companies of these two product in which i asked them to send me a trivial version of their softwares. As soon as i get them, i will provide a further review and a link on our website (Surely,these two softwares may help us a lot to decide how to approach to our kiosk solution designs).I also read some special publications about kiosk design issues such as "10 reasons why kiosk projects fail" and "4 strategies for Kiosk Application Design". These documents will also be provided on this page soon. Since we have received the floor plan from Careffour@Cepa, I also do some reading about libraries of OPENGL for 3d modelling based on our 2d plans. Lastly i took a glance at Data Mining which will aid us to transform our datas into information.Because of its importance on the project,I am planning to do more detailed research on this subject for next week.

[Mehmet Deveci] Weekly Report-05.11.09

This week, I searched for the data mining concepts and found out the lectures notes of Kurt Thearling [1] from which I had a basic information about the subject. In addition, I got the book "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Jiawei Han" that is recommended by Pinar Senkul. We also made contacts with some of companies such as Carrefour, Media Markt, Vatan Bilgisayar, Praktiker and Migros. Among all, we had an interview with CarrefourSa-Cepa who accepted to be our sponsor.

1. http://www.thearling.com/dmintro/dmintro_2.htm