Advanced Databases; Current Trends in Databases

1 Advanced Databases; Current Trends in Databases Bettina Berendt / Ilija Subašić September 2011 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Computer Science http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~berendt/teaching/ 1

2 Role of these two courses in the curriculum • Advanced Databases (6 SPs) • Mandatory for people who take the Databases specialisation • Open to everybody else • Current Trends in Databases (6 SPs) • Optional • Requirements: Advanced Databases and/or Text-based Information Retrieval (à the other mandatory course in the specialisation) 2

3 Top-level questions What makes data powerful? How does science work? 3

4 Style of these two courses • Advanced Databases • Mode: Lecture + exercises • Materials: Extensive slideset + original literature (mostly basic) • Evaluation: ongoing, homeworks (models, programs, reports, oral presentations, peer-review) • Current Trends in Databases • Mode: • The Database specialisation‘s equivalent of Capita Selecta • Mini-workshops together with U Antwerp and U Hasselt, mixed student teams • Materials: Original literature (basic to advanced) • Evaluation: ongoing, presentation and co-presentation, teamwork exercises, discussion, written homework 4

5 Who are we? (as of 2011/12) Ilija Subašić Jan Van Den Bussche (UH) Advanced Databases Current Trends in Databases Bo Gao Alvaro Cortes- Calabuig (UA) Bettina Berendt 5

6 The Starting Point - your database course in the Bachelor A well-understood,mature and performant approach: relational databases • Conceptual model • Logical model • Physical model (and their implementations) 6

10 ADB (2010 à will be adjusted this academic year) 10

11 CTDB (2011 à will be adjusted this academic year) 11

12 CTDB work style: Scientific reading, writing and presenting 12

13 CTDB topics: Questions, starting literature, hints, ... (2009 ex.) 13

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Advanced Databases; Current Trends in Databases