Monday and Wednesday 9:15am - 10:30am; Rm. MSB 276
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-12:00pm and by appointment
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The course introduces a variety of advanced database topics and on-going trends in modern database systems. We focus on techniques that have recently been proposed and either are in the process of being transferred or soon will be transferred to vendor's products. We assume that students are familiar with a relational database model, relational algebra, SQL, basic set theory, propositional logic, and first order predicate calculus. The course includes but not limited to basic issues of Storage Structures, Query Optimization, Data Warehousing, Streaming Data Processing and Sensor Networks, Data Integration and Data Mining The detailed course content description is given below.
Additional materials will include papers supplied by the instructor
Weekly Course Outline
| Weeks | Topics | Reading Material |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2 | Indexing | Ch 11,12 |
| 3-5 | Concurrency Control | Materials supplied by Instructor |
| 6-7 | Distributed and Parallel Databases and Data GRID | 18, 19, 20 |
| 8 | Data Warehousing | Ch 18 |
| 9-10/td> | Data Mining | Materials supplied by Instructor |
| 11-15/td> | Student's Presentations | Materials supplied by Instructor |
Projects, Exams, and Presentations
There will be a midterm on March 2, 2009. Each student is expected to do a project that will be made available by February 23, 2009. The project deadline is May 6, 2009 and no late projects will be accepted. Project presentations are scheduled on May 14th. In addition, the instructor will provide several topics for students presentations. A week before of the student's presentation, a presenter should provide the instructor with the prepared draft of PowerPoint presentation.
Requirements & Grading Policy
A student's grade will be determined as a weighted average of project (50%), midterm (25%), and presentation (25%).
University Policy 3342-3-01 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accomodation to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have a documented disability and require accomodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must verify your disability for these through Student Accessibility Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit www.kent.edu/sas for more information on registration procedures).