Dr. Manuel Rodríguez-Martínez

Office: T-212

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

E-mail: manuelr@acm.org

Office Hours: TBA

 

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.

An introductory course to Database Management Systems that is equivalent to ICOM 4017. Students with ICOM 6005 might have a more solid foundation. Also, students are expected to be proficient with a modern programming language such as C, C++ or Java. Experience with a Database Management System (e.g. ORACLE), JDBC, ODBC, Windows 2000 or UNIX is a plus.

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM, S-203 (S-227)

 

3 credits

http://www.ece.uprm.edu/manuel/class/spring02/ciic8015/index.htm

 

There is no required textbook for the class. Instead, we will read a considerable amount of journal and conference research papers, published in the major forums for Database research. These papers will be made available to you on-line via the class Web Page. Similarly, the reading list indicating the papers to be read will be made available later on. In addition, several chapters from Database textbooks will be made available as needed. These copies will be placed at the Engineering Reproduction Center.

The following is a tentative list of the books from which selected chapters will be obtained:

Database Management Systems, 2^nd ed.

Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke

McGraw-Hill, 2000

ISBN: 0-07-232206-3

 

Databases and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach

Philip M. Lewis, Arthur Bernstein, and Michael Kifer

Addison-Wesley, 2002

ISBN: 0-201-70872-8

 

Database System Concepts, 2^nd ed.

Henry F. Korth and Abraham Silberschatz

McGraw-Hill, 1991

ISBN: 0-07-044754-3

 

TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1

W. Richard Stevens

Addison-Wesley, 1994

ISBN: 0-201-63346-9

 

Your grade will be based exclusively on the scores that you obtain in the class term project, quizzes, short papers assignments and class participation. The curve to be used to assign a grade to your score will be as follows:

Score (%) Grade

100-90                    A

89.9-80                   B

79.9-70                   C

69.9-65                   D

65.0-0                       F

Your total score will be calculated from your individual scores in the project, quizzes, short papers assignments and class participation. The weights assigned to each of these categories are as follows:

Term Project 50%

Quizes 15%

Short Papers 25%

Class Participation 10%

In this course, you are expected to complete a mini-research term project on a topic of your choosing. You can work individually, but it is preferred that you work in teams of two or three students. The professor will suggest several topics, or you might propose you own. The only requirement for the topic is that it is relevant to the area of Distributed Databases. You must e-mail the professor your topic before starting with the project. Every project should be completed using the academic and/or research facilities available from the ECE Department at UPRM.

We will have several 15-minutes quizzes at the beginning of the class period. These quizzes will be announced, and will consist of either one discussion question, or one problem. The quizzes will be based on the material already discussed in the class, or on material to be discussed the on day of the quiz.

Each student will write several 2-page papers explaining the main ideas and contributions of some papers that will be discussed in the class. The first few papers will be written in Spanish, to get you comfortable with the writing process. Later on, however, they must be written in English to get you experienced in technical writing, a skill required to publish good research papers.

Each student is expected to work individually on all quizzes and short papers. Students can only collaborate in their project with the other members of their team. You may not use code from another student who is not a member of your team, or use code that you find on the Internet or any similar resources, unless the latter is a tool, system, or API that you plan to use or modify as part of your project. You may not share your code with another student who is not a member of your team. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in a grade of F in the course for the student(s) breaking these rules. Unauthorized group efforts, particularly during quizzes, will be considered academic dishonesty and the students involved will receive an F in the course. You should read Article 10 of the "Reglamento General de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Puerto Rico" to learn more about the possible sanctions that you might experience if caught in an act of academic dishonesty

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