Topics in Distributed Databases (P00903)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-TDD

This course covers not only the basic technology required for distributed databases, but also some of the emerging technology of database integration and peer-to-peer technology for highly distributed databases.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Database Systems (DBS) or Applied Databases (AD)

? Co-requisites : A course in database systems or lecturer's consent.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Computer Science, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2006	16:00	17:00	Tutorial Room 8, Appleton Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	16:10	18:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:
* Describe emerging issues in distributed databases: data integration, data provenance and annotation, view maintenance and distributed query evaluation and optimisation.
* Describe the problems faced in data integration, as well as model solutions to these problems.
* Describe the need for provenance and annotation in contemporary database technology.
* Translate between data models given examples.
* Demonstrate the issues involved in data publishing for distributed query processing.
* Demonstrate the problems of view maintenance and the partial solutions that have been developed.
* Demonstrate their knowledge of distributed query processing in specific database areas such as data stream management and peer-to-peer database systems.
* Describe the issues involved in distributed query optimisation regarding cost modeling and algorithms for query evaluation.