Course Description

A contemporary look at field on Distributed Database Management Systems, focusing on techniques, trends and open problems that are currently shaping the research agenda for the next few years. Study of Distributed Database Architectures, Query Processing Algorithms, Distributed Transaction Models, Replication and Caching Algorithms, World-Wide Web and Databases, and Data Dissemination. The list of concrete topics includes: Internet Architecture, Client-Server Architectures, Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Wide-Area Information Systems, Heterogeneous Database Systems, Middleware Architectures, Mobile Databases, Data Dissemination and Broadcasting, Distributed Transactions, Replication, Caching, World Wide Web Architectures, Distributed View Materialization, Distributed Query Processing, Networks of Sensors, and Earth Science Information Systems.

Instructor

Dr. Manuel Rodriguez-Martinez

Office: T-212

          Phone: (787)-832-4040, x-3023

          E-mail: manuelr@acm.org

          Office hours: W 3:30PM - 5:00PM, F 10:30AM - 12:00PM

Lecture Time

Tu -Th 4:30pm - 5:00pm, S-227

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