Relational theory and extensions, such as relational calculus, relational algebra, higher order normal forms; advanced DBMS concepts, such as integrity, recovery, concurrency, security, query optimisation; object-oriented databases; distributed databases, related techniques and protocols, such as data replication, data fragmentation, synchronisation, load balancing; parallel databases; deductive databases; federated databases and homogeneity/heterogeneity.

Course Objectives

1.Learn advanced topics of database field

2.Gain ability to capture research articles

3.Gain ability to make a survey, propose solution and develop a project

Recommended or Required Reading

E.F. CODD. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, Coomunication of the ACM, vol 15, June 1970 ,P.G. SELLINGER, M.M. ASTRAHAN, D.D. CHAMBERLIN, R.A. LORIE and T.G. PRICE, Access Path Selection in a Reletional Database System, ACM, 1979 ,S.CHAUDHURI, An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems, PODS 1998 ,A. GUTTMAN. R-TREES. A Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching, ACM 1984 ,J. NIEVERGELT and H. HINTERBERGER. The Grid File: An Adaptable, Symmetric Multikey File Structure, ACM 1984 ,P.O’NEAL and D. QUASS. Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes, ACM 1997 ,D.J. DeWITT and J. GRAY.Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Processing, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 36, No. 6, June 1992 ,M. STONEBRAKER, P. M. AOKI, W. LITWIN, A. PFEFFER, A. SAH, J. SIDELL, C. STAELIN, A. YU. Mariposa: a wide-area distributed database system, The VLDBJournal, Springer-Verlag 1996 ,R. SNODGRASSF and I. AHN. A Taxonomy of Time in Databases, ACM, 1985 ,R. AGRAWAL and R. SRIKANT. Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules, Proceedings of the 20th VLDB ConferenceSantiago, Chile, 1994 ,J. GRAY, S. CHAUDHURI, A. BOSWORTH, A. LAYMAN, D. REICHART and M. VENKATRAO. Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Totals, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1, 29–53 (1997) ,S. BRIN and L. PAGE The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Proceeding of 7th International Conference on World Wide Web, 1998 ,C.J. Date, An Introduction to Database Systems, Addison-Wesley, Seventh Edition, 2010

Learning Outcomes

1. Learn the history and development of aproaches and methods behind the functions of database management system (PO1, PO3),

2. Gain ability to read, abstract and discuss the important articles of the feld (PO1, PO3),

3. Understand, present and discuss the present research in the field of database.

Grading

Midterm 30%

Research Presentation 30%

Final 40%