INF5100 syllabus Fall 2006

This list is under construction; it will change (expand) during the term. Last changed: October 19, 2006

Note: The core of the curriculum is the slides used in the lectures.

The main bulk of the curriculum is covered by the following two textbooks:

• Elmasri/Navathe
  Fundamentals of Database Systems, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007 (alternatively, 4th Edition, 2003).
• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom
  Database systems. The complete book, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-031995-3, 0-13-098043-9.

Curriculum for the different subjects covered by the course:

Trends and future applications

• Elmasri/Navathe, 5th ed.: Chapter 30.
  (Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Chapter 29.)
• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom: Chapter 1
• Jim Gray: The Next Database Revolution. Proc. 2004 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. (Available through the ACM Digital Library, see e.g. http://x-port.uio.no.)

Distributed database systems

• Elmasri/Navathe: Chapter 25, section 1-6.

Data management in sensor networks

• Samuel R. Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong: TinyDB: an acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS),? Volume 30, Issue 1, 2005. (Available through the ACM Digital Library, see e.g. http://x-port.uio.no.) The most important sections for this course are: 1-4.1, 5-5.2, 6-6.2,

Heterogeneous database systems

• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom: Chapter 20, section 1-3.

Data stream management systems

• Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom: "Models and issues in data stream systems" i PODS '02: Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, 2002. ISBN: 1-58113-507-6. (Available through the ACM Digital Library, http://x-port.uio.no.)
• Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Ozsu: "Issues in data stream management" i SIGMOD Rec., Volume 32, No. 2, 2003. ISBN: 0163-5808. (Available through the ACM Digital Library, http://x-port.uio.no.)

Data warehouses. Data mining

• Elmasri/Navathe, 5th ed.: Data warehousing: Chapter 29. Data mining: Chapter 28, with emphasis on sections 28.1 and 28.6.
  (Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Data warehouses: Chapter 28. Data mining: Chapter 27, with emphasis on sections 27.1 and 27.6.)
• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom: Chapter 20, section 6.

XML databases

• Elmasri/Navathe, 5th ed.: Chapter 26, section 1, Chapter 27.
  (Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Chapter 26.
• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom: Chapter 4.7.
• XML and databases, Chapter 1 in XML for DB2 Information Integration, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246994.pdf
  Abstract for this article can be found here: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246994.html?Open

The Semantic Web

• Tim Berners-Lee, James hendler and Ora Lassila: The Semantic Web, Scientific American, May 2001. link
• David Norheim and Roar Fjellheim: AKSIO - Active knowledge management in the petroleum industry, ESWC2006. link

Transaction models. Transaction management

• Elmasri/Navathe: Chapter 17-18.
• Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom: Chapter 19.
• Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter: Transaction processing - Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993: Chapter 4.

Knowledge management

• M. Alavi and D. Leidner. Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: conceptual foundations and research issues; MISQuarterly Vol. 25 No.1, pp.107-136, March 2001. http://www.coba.usf.edu/departments/isds/faculty/abhatt/rm/Alavi01-KnowledgeManagement.pdf
• Deborah L. McGuinness. Ontologies Come of Age. In Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster, editors. Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential. MIT Press, 2002. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologies-come-of-age-mit-press-(with-citation).htm