University of Pittsburgh

School of Information Sciences

Graduate Information Science & Technology Program

INFSCI 2711: Advanced Topics in Database Management

TELCOM 2326: Distributed Databases

Spring 2012

Class Time and Place: Tue 12:00-2:50;IS 501

Instructor:  Vladimir Zadorozhny
Office Hours:  by appointment
Tel:    (412) 624 9411
e-mail: vladimir@sis.pitt.edu


GSA: Andrii Cherniak
Office Hours: Friday, 2:00 - 3:00 pm, SIS 2B10
Tel:    (412) 624 7378
e-mail: aic3@pitt.edu

This is  an advanced graduate course on database systems. The focus of this course is on distributed and unstructured database management, as well as on relationship between database management, information retrieval, and semantic technologies.

Prerequisites

INFSCI 2710, or permission of instructor .

Topics Covered

Class Requirements and Grading

This course is being offered for three credits. The coursework consists of Homeworks, Exams, and  a team-oriented Project. The grading is as follows:

 

Homeworks

20%

Midterm Exam

20%

Final Exam

30%

Project 

30%

 

Late Policy: Homeworks are due at the beginning of class on the due date. Homework can be turned in the following class for a 25% penalty. No assignments will be accepted after that time.

SALT    (go here to see the rules)

Lesslet Topic

Contributors

Lesslet Post Due Day

Lesslet Take&Like Due Day

Data Warehousing Andrew Barnett
Patric Cameron
Jie Chen
Yu-Ming Chen 		Sat, 01/28Tue, 01/31
Naming Service Cruz Micheal,Ezhil Manoj
Entin,Andrew Bruce
Jin, Xiao
Junker,Thomas Parke 		Sat, 02/04Tue, 02/07
Distributed Lock Management Karataev,Evgeny Pavlovich
Kelaiya,Ravi K.
Kraisangka,Jidapa
Lei,Lei 		Sat, 02/11Tue, 02/14
Query Processing Liao,Han
Lin,Xiaolin
Liu,Chang
McVey,Joseph Patrick 		Sat, 02/18Tue, 02/21
Query Optimisation Miller,Eric Scott
Narayana Swamy,Poornima
Peng,Ye
Pulgino,Evan Matthew
Sat, 02/25Tue, 02/28
Object Databases Quattrone,Henry Joseph
Salunke,Aditya Deepak
Subramoniapillai Ajeetha,Nikilesh
Swartz,Mark T.
Sat, 03/17Tue, 03/20
XPath Tan,Miao
Thomas,Kenneth Paul
Wang,Guanda
Yan,Jiahua
Sat, 03/24Tue, 03/27
HADOOP Yang,Hsiang-Ting
Zhang,Jiong
Zhang,Lihong
Zhang,Ming
Sat, 04/14Tue, 04/17
HADOOP Yuchen Liu
Mon, 04/02Tue, 04/03

Communication

There will be a hadoop lab on 03/27. Please, bring your laptop to the class

Project grade is going to be distributed proportionally to the amount of effort each group member put in the project. Please, each of you, by midnight of Apr 17, email to aic3@pitt.edu your group evaluation. This evaluation should include a list of your group members together with the percentage of how much work each group member put in the project.

Project

register for the project

The project is done in groups of 2-3 students and is documented by a written group report. A demo will be scheduled for each group.  The groups are ``self-policed''.

Special Projects:  This class also offers students an opportunity to participate in special projects. Special projects give you a chance to work on more advanced topics related to current research projects conducted by the instructor and his doctoral students. If you are interested in participating in the special project please send an email to the instructor  (cc to GSA) with brief description of you skills as soon as possible.

Homework