CSCI 8370
Advanced Database Systems
John A. Miller
Spring 2004

Textbook

Database Systems: The Complete Book,
Garcia-Molina, Ullman and Widom, 2002

Class Time (in Hardman 102)

Day Period 4 Period 73
. 11:15 - 12:05 11:00 - 12:15
Tuesday . Lecture
Wednesday Recitation .
Thursday . Lecture

Course Description

This is an advanced course on database systems and related information technology. Topics very year to year.

Course Topics

Grading

20% Exam I 3/2
20% Exam II 4/20
20% Final 5/4
10% Lecture -
20% Project (group of 2/3) 4/28-4/29
10% Homework [presentation]

Student Lectures

  1. Ontology Web Language (OWL)
    He (1/29)
  2. Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL)
    Zhang (2/3)
  3. Object-Relational Databases: PostgreSQL and SQL-99
    Little (2/19)
  4. Query Processing for Object-Oriented Databases
    Chowdhury (2/24)
  5. Advanced Transaction Models
    Rhodes (3/26)
  6. Web Service Transactions
    Su (4/1)
  7. Federated Databases on the Web
    Tartir (4/6)
  8. Web Information Security and Privacy
    Wallace (4/7)
  9. Web Service Composition
    Mulye (4/13)
  10. Web Service Policies and Negotiation
    Pennington (4/8)
  11. Ontology Based Schema Integration
    Wei (4/14)
  12. Ontology Based Queries
    Luo (4/15)
  13. Ontology Design Methodologies
    Dai (4/21)
  14. Semantic Web Services and OWL-S
    Wang (4/22)
  15. Web Service Functionality
    Liu (4/27)

Projects

- Abstract due 4/8
- Project presentation and demo (last week of class)
- Write a conference style 6 page paper (due before demo)

Policies