INF5100 syllabus Fall 2008
This list is under
construction; it will change (expand) during the term. Last changed: August 19, 2008
Note: The core of the curriculum is the slides used in
the lectures.
The main bulk of the curriculum is covered by the following
two textbooks:
- Elmasri/Navathe
Fundamentals of Database Systems, 5th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007 (alternatively, 4th Edition, 2003). - Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom
Database systems. The complete book, Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0-13-031995-3, 0-13-098043-9.
Curriculum for the different subjects covered by the
course:
Trends and future applications
- Elmasri/Navathe,
5th ed.: Chapter 30.
(Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Chapter 29.) - Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom:
Chapter 1
- Jim
Gray: The Next Database Revolution. Proc. 2004 ACM SIGMOD International
Conference on Management of Data. (Available through the ACM Digital
Library, see e.g. http://x-port.uio.no.)
- Elmasri/Navathe: Chapter 25, section 1-6.
Data management in sensor networks
- Samuel
R. Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong: TinyDB:
an acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks. ACM
Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 30, Issue 1, 2005.
(Available through the ACM Digital Library, see e.g. http://x-port.uio.no.)
The most important sections for this course are: 1-4.1, 5-5.2, 6-6.2,
Heterogeneous database systems
- Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom:
Chapter 20, section 1-3.
Data stream management systems
- Brian
Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom:
"Models and issues in data stream systems" i PODS '02:
Proceedings of the twenty-first ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on
Principles of database systems, 2002. ISBN: 1-58113-507-6. (Available
through the ACM Digital Library, http://x-port.uio.no.)
- Lukasz
Golab, M. Tamer Ozsu: "Issues in data stream management" i
SIGMOD Rec., Volume 32, No. 2, 2003. ISBN: 0163-5808. (Available through
the ACM Digital Library, http://x-port.uio.no.)
- Elmasri/Navathe,
5th ed.: Data warehousing: Chapter 29. Data mining: Chapter
28, with emphasis on sections 28.1 and 28.6.
(Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Data warehouses: Chapter 28. Data mining: Chapter 27, with emphasis on sections 27.1 and 27.6.) - Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom:
Chapter 20, section 6.
- Elmasri/Navathe,
5th ed.: Chapter 26, section 1, Chapter 27.
(Elmasri/Navathe, 4th ed.: Chapter 26. - Garcia-Molina/Ullman/Widom:
Chapter 4.7.
- XML
and databases, Chapter 1 in XML for DB2 Information Integration,
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246994.pdf
Abstract for this article can be found here: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246994.html?Open
- Tim
Berners-Lee, James hendler and Ora Lassila: The Semantic Web, Scientific
American, May 2001. link