Syllabus and Schedule

Lecture

Day

Topic Covered

Assignments/Exams

1

Jan 07

Ch1~Ch11

Review

1

2

Jan 09

1

3

Jan 14

Ch13

External Sorting

1

4

Jan 16

1

5

Jan 21

 No classes

1

6

Jan 23

 Ch13 External Sorting

1

7

Jan 28

 Ch16 Overview of Transaction Management Assignment 1 Due1

8

Jan 30

 Ch17 Concurrency Control

1

9

Feb 04

Assignment 1 Due

10

Feb 06

1

11

Feb 11

 Ch18 Crash Recovery

1

12

Feb 13

1

13

Feb 18

Assignment 2 Due

14

Feb 20

 Exam 1

1

15

Feb 25

 Ch22 Parallel and Distributed Databases

1

16

Feb 27

1

1

Mar 03

Spring Break

1

1

Mar 05

1

17

Mar 10

 Ch22 Parallel and Distributed Databases (cont)

Project Due

18

Mar 12

        1 page abstract of the Project Due

19

Mar 17

 Ch27 Information Retrieval

1

20

Mar 19

1

21

Mar 24

 Ch23&26 Data Warehousing and Data Mining

1

22

 Mar 26 1

23

 Mar 31 1

24

Apr 02

 Ch28 Spatial Databases

Assignment 3 Due

25

 Apr 07 Exam 2 1

26

Apr 09

 Chunyu: Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks
Chaitanya: Probabilistic Databases
Gul: Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases

1

27

Apr 14

 Shan: Data Mining & Intrusion Detection
David: Peer-to-Peer Databases
Silva: Skyline

1

28

Apr 16

 Angela: Embedded Database Management Systems
Bhavin: XML to Relational Database Mapping
Meghana: Operating System Support for Database Management

1

29

Apr 21

 Pradeep: Multimedia Databases
Ngozi: Bioinformatics Data Representation and Integration

1

30

Apr 23

 Phani: Introducing Real-time Databases
Rucha: Querying XML Database Using Relational Database System
Chirayu: ETL Process in Data Warehouse

1

31

Apr 28

 Fasheng: Visual Data Mining: Concepts, Frameworks and Algorithm Development
Telvis: Database Techniques for Fighting SPAM

1

31

 Apr 30

Project Presentation

 1

1

May 05

Project Report Due

NOTE:
This syllabus represents a general plan and it is subject to change.