Master's Study Program & last year regular undergraduate Computer Science Program

Advanced Databases (& Applications)              

Prof Dr R Meersman —Spring Semester 2006

a.k.a. Seminarie Database Semantiek (incl. in 2006: DB Technologie & Toepassingen)

Prerequisite knowledge: Database Theory and/or Information Systems (3rd year)

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Selected slides copies   In PDF... —use these wisely...                                           —last updated: Mar 2006

(including choice presentations by previous student teams)

                        click here  ==> Advanced DB & Apps.ppt as PDF

2006  Schedule of group presentations: composition and subjects. If you are registered for this course but your name does not appear below, you may already have a problem :-)

                                                                                                                                                              —last updated:  March 29, 2006

Please make your ppt slide material (and documentation sources, if not already in reader) available to your opponent(s) one week before your presentation. As your presentations are20 mins, followed by 10 mins opposition and discussion, do not make more than 8-10 ppt slides!

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Term synthesis papers. The deadline for the synthesis term papers is on Monday June 19, 2006 at 17h00. Please DO NOT MISS this deadline. Earlier submission strongly appreciated! Each student must submit an individual paper (PLEASE provide as well a PRINTED version to my office) that must treat his/her chosen subject as an extension of a "classical" database technology to be linked with (a) first order semantics as defined in Genesereth and Nilsson (Ch. 2), (b) the Reiter paper when appropriate, or discuss coherently why not—, and for those marked with a (+), also: (c) one extra subject of his/her choice. Topics may also be chosen from book chapters and books mentioned below, or negotiated with me. A typical synthesis paper will be 8-12 pages (single-spaced, 12pt), up to 20 for (+) , but these are not hard limits.

Grading: you will receive a combined mark for(1) your presentation, (2) your chosen opposition question(s), and of course (3) the quality of your synthesis term paper.

Basic books and literature used (loan copies available from lecturer) 
M. Genesereth and N. Nilsson, "Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence", Morgan-Kaufmann  —Chapters 1 and 2 only
R. Reiter, "Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Relational Database Theory"    —copy available from lecturer
S. Abiteboul, R. Hull, V. Vianu, "Foundations of Databases", Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Recommended for topics (loan copies available from lecturer)
C. Zaniolo (ed.), "Advanced Database Systems", Morgan-Kaufmann   —Chapters on Deductive, Temporal, OO, and Multimedia databases
S. Abiteboul and D. Suciu, "Data on the Web- from Relations to Semistructured Data and XML", Morgan-Kaufmann   —various chapters
Tansel et al, "Temporal Databases", Benjamin-Cummings, 1993
G. Alonso, F. Casati, et al. "Web Services", Springer-Verlag, 2004.
M. Jarke et al., "Fundamentals of Data Warehouses", Springer Verlag, 2000.
M.P. Papazoglou, G. Schlageter, "Cooperative Information Systems", Academic Press, 1998.
S.S. Bhowmick, S.K. Madria, W.K. Ng, "Web Data Management", Springer Verlag, 2004.
J. Minker (ed.), "Deductive Databases and Logic Programming", Morgan-Kaufman, 1990. --selected chapters
R. Meersman, S. Stevens and Z. Tari (eds.), Semantic Issues in Multimedia Databases, Kluwer 1999. --selected papers
H. Stuckenschmidt, F. van Harmelen, "Information Sharing on the Semantic Web", Springer Verlag, 2005