INF5100 - Autumn 2004

LECTURE PLAN AND HAND-OUTS, INF5100, FALL 2004

 

Lecturers:

M. Naci Akk?k (NAK)

Norun Sanderson (NS)

Two guest lecturers: Toto Horvli (TH) from NCR and Knut Omang (KO) from FAST

 

NOTE that the plan may change on short notice. Do follow up.

NOTE that the course starts Wednesday 25-AUG-2004 (WEEK 35) and ends Wednesday 24-NOV-2004 (WEEK 48, last time).

 

NOTE: TBA stands for To Be Announced

 

COURSE WEEK (calendar week)

TOPICS

SYLLABUS

LINKS TO HANDOUTS

LECTURER

1

(35)
  • Course introduction.
  • Applications and requirements.
  • NAK
  • NAK

2

(36)
  • Introducing the mandatory exercise.
  • A simple ObjectStore example.
  • ObjectStore code example
  • Start help for Oracle and ObjectStore
  • Beyond relational databases.
  • NS
  • NS
  • NS
  • NS
  • NAK

3

(37)
  • Data models and standards.
  • Active databases.
  • Distributed DBS.
  • NAK
  • NAK
  • NAK

4

(38)
  • Heterogeneous DBS (HDBS).
  • NAK

5

(39)
  • Transaction models.
  • NAK

6

(40)

NO LECTURE
  • Reserved for work with the mandatory exercise due 3-NOV-2004, week 11(45), latest 16:00 hrs.
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7

(41)
  • A bit more on HDBS (from week 4)
  • Transaction management in HDBS.
  • NAK
  • NAK

8

(42)

NO LECTURE
  • This week is reserved for mid-term evaluations (NO LECTURE).
  • ---
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9

(43)
  • Change management.
  • XML and the WWW.
  • NAK
  • NAK

10

(44)
  • Introduction to data mining.
  • Multimedia-databases.
  • NAK
  • NAK

11

(45)

REMEMBER!
Mandatory Exercise due this week, 3rd November 2004 before 16:00 hrs!
  • Information storage/retrieval vs. data storage/retrieval: Semantic Web and related areas.
  • Implications for DBS.
  • Literature: Hand-outs and lectures only
  • KO
  • (NAK)

12

(46)
  • Data warehousing and its relation to data mining.
  • Wrap-up
  • TH
  • (NAK)

13

(47)
  • Knowledge management on mobile and ad-hoc networks (MANETs).
  • Implications for DBS.
  • Literature TBA
  • Literature TBA
  • NS
  • (NAK)

14

(48)
  • Summary
  • ALL literature above
  • NA