IS617: Advanced Distributed Databases (Spring 2016)

Semester: 
Spring

Course Description

This course aims to introduce the concepts of distributed database systems and the nature of changes in database management systems to handle issues in data distribution. In addition to reviewing the state of the art research in distributed databases research area.

Instructors

Dr. Neamat El Tazi and Dr. Neveen El Gamal

Grading Scheme

  •  60% Final exam
  • 10% Mid Term 
  • 10% Project Presentation
  • 15% Reserach Paper (Project Output)
  •  5% Chapter Presentation

Lecture Time

Sundays from 4PM to 7PM

List of Journals 

 - Journals in databases with impact factor at least 1.

List of Conferences (To select papers from)

1.       VLDB - Very Large Data Bases

2.       SIGMOD - International Conference on Management of Data

3.       ICDE - International Conference on Data Engineering

4.       PODS - Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

5.       HICSS - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

6.       CIKM - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

7.       EDBT - Extending Database Technology

8.       ER(OOER) - Object-Oriented and Entity-Relationship Modelling/International Conference on Conceptual Modeling / the Entity Relationship Approach

9.       ICDT - International Conference on Database Theory

10.   CAiSE - Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering

11.   SSD - Symposium on Large Spatial Databases

12.   ICIS - International Conference on Information Systems

13.   DEXA - Database and Expert Systems Applications

14.   SSDBM - Statistical and Scientific Database Management

15.   DBPL - Workshop on Database Programming Languages

16.   RIDE - Research Issues in Data Engineering

17.   DOOD - Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases

18.   DASFAA - Database Systems for Advanced Applications

19.   IDEAS - International Database Engineering and Application Symposium

20.   ADBIS - Advances in Databases and Information Systems

21.   EDBT - International Conference on Extending Database Technology

Schedule

Lecture Number

 Date

 Presenter

 Lecture Title

 Students Presentations (in the beginning of the lecture)

 Deadlines
Lecture 1

21 Feb

Dr. Neveen

Introduction (Chapter 1) (PDF)

Challenges  

 

 
Lecture 2

28 Feb

Dr. Neveen

Distributed Database Design (Chapter 3) (PDF)

 

 Topics Selection
Lecture 3

6 Mar

Dr. Neveen

Distributed Database Design - Cont. (PDF)

 

 
Lecture 4

13 Mar

Dr. Neamat

Query Processing Overview(Chapter 6) (PDF)

 (Distributed Database Design)

 
Lecture 5

20 Mar

Dr. Neamat

Query Decomposition and Localization (Chapter 7) (PDF)

 
Lecture 6

27 Mar

Dr. Neamat

Query Optimization (Chapter 8) (PDF)

 
Lecture 7

3 Apr.

Dr. Neamat

Transaction Management Overview (Chapter 10) (PDF)

 

 
Lecture 8

10 Apr

Dr. Neamat

Concurrency Control (Chapter 11) (PDF)

 Presented by Student
Lecture 9

17 Apr

Dr. Neamat

Mid Term

 
Lecture 10

24 Apr

Dr. Neveen

Reliability (Chapter 12)

 
Lecture 11

1 May

No Lecture- Labor Day

 
Lecture 12

8 May

Dr. Neveen

Replication (Chapter 13)

 

 
Lecture 13

15 May

Both

Project Presentations

 

Paper Submission Deadline 
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