In the name of God

 

Special Topics in Database Systems

 

 

Instructor: Dr. Maseud Rahgozar (rahgozar@ut.ac.ir)

 

Course Web Pages: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/classpages/TopicsinDatabase/

 

Reference books:

Database System Concepts - 2001 - Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

                                               Database Management Systems – 2000 – R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke

Paper reveiw:

A list of papers covered in “Advanced Database Systems” and “Hot Topics in Database Systems” courses at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) are attached. Most papers are from the latest conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, etc). Paper suggestions are welcome too.

Advanced Topics of interest:

Application Development and Administration                                            

·          Web Interfaces to Databases

·          Performance Tuning              

·          Performance Benchmarks      

·          Standardization     

·          E-Commerce

·          Legacy Systems

Advanced Querying and Information Retrieval                                         

·          Decision-Support Systems      

·          Data Analysis and OLAP       

·          Data Mining

·          Data Warehousing 

·          Information-Retrieval Systems               

Advanced Data Types and New Applications                               

·          Motivations                                           

·          Time in Databases 

·          Spatial and Geographic Data

·          Multimedia Databases           

·          Mobility and Personal Databases          

Advanced Transaction Processing                               

·          Transaction-Processing Monitors          

·          Transactional Workflows

·          Main-Memory Databases

·          Real-Time Transaction Systems

·          Long-Duration Transactions

·          Transaction Management in Multi-databases        

 

 

Grading Policy:

 

The final note will be based on the following table:

 

Lectures/Papers (*)

40%

Project  (*)

10%

Quiz

10%

Final exam

40%

 

(*) If and only if (Quiz + Final exam) reach at least 30%.