Week 1
| 8/25 | Introduction
| | 8/26 | Project Selection
| | 8/27 | Normalization Theory
| Week 2
| 9/1 | Normalization Theory
| | 9/2 | Project Abstracts & Defense
| | 9/3 | Normalization Theory
| Week 3
| 9/8 | Query Optimization
| | 9/9 | Paper #1 - Jones (Query Driven Simulation)
| | 9/10 | Query Optimization
| Week 4
| 9/15 | Transaction Management
| | 9/16 | Paper #2 - Silva (Transaction Monitors)
| | 9/17 | Transaction Management
| Week 5
| 9/22 | Distributed Databases
| | 9/23 | Paper #3 - Khan (Multidatabases)
| | 9/24 | Distributed Databases
| Week 6
| 9/29 | Present Database Designs (ER, 3NF, BCNF)
| | 9/30 | Paper #4 - Hall (DB Design in Bio-Informatics)
| | 10/1 | Exam I
| Week 7
| 10/6 | Object-Relational Databases
| | 10/7 | Paper #5 - Ray (Comparison of OO and OR Databases)
| | 10/8 | Object-Relational Databases
| Week 8
| 10/13 | Active Databases
| | 10/14 | Paper #6 - Lu (Triggers and Methods in OR Databases)
| | 10/15 | Active Databases
| Week 9
| 10/20 | Data Warehouses
| | 10/21 | Paper #7 - Ragavan (OLAP)
| | 10/22 | Paper #8 - Xing (Data Mining)
| Week 10
| 10/27 | Multimedia Databases
| | 10/28 | Paper #9 - Mahajan (Indexing for Images and Videos)
| | 10/29 | Multimedia Databases
| Week 11
| 11/3 | Workflow
| | 11/4 | Paper #10 - Wang (Temporal Constraints in Workflow)
| | 11/5 | Workflow
| Week 12
| 11/10 | Advanced Transactions and Transactional Workflows
| | 11/11 | Paper #11 - Li (Transactional Workflows)
| | 11/12 | Advanced Transactions and Transactional Workflows
| Week 13
| 11/17 | Security in Databases and Workflow
| | 11/18 | Paper #12 - Fan (Security in Web-Based Workflows)
| | 11/19 | Exam II
| Week 13 1/2
| 11/24 | Demo Walk-Throughs
| Week 14
| 12/1 | Project Presentation - Group 1: Silva & Li
| | | Transactional Workflow using Transaction Services | Oracle 8, Informix
| | 12/2 | Project Presentation - Group 2: Hall & Wang
| | | Temporal Workflow for Genome Mapping | Oracle 8, Ontos
| | 12/3 | Project Presentations - Group 3: Ray & Mahajan
| | | A Multimedia Database for Browsing Video Clips | Poet
| Week 15
| 12/8 | Project Presentation - Group 4: Ragavan & Khan
| | | A University Research Data Warehouse: Mining for Grants | Oracle 8
| | 12/9 | Project Presentation - Group 5: Jones & Lu
| | | A Repository for the JSIM Simulation Environment | Oracle 8, Mini SQL
| | 12/10 | Project Presentation - Group 6: Xing, Tian & Zhao
| | | AI Techniques for Data Mining | Oracle 8
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