B669 Database Systems and INTERNAL DESIGN
Course Description | Course Text | Course Info | Course Mechanism | Course Policies
B669 Database Systems and Internal Design (3 CR)
P: knowledge of database concepts and database application design as can be obtained from B461 or B 561.
B669 covers advanced topics in the design and development of database management systems and their modern applications. Topics to be covered include database recourse management, advanced access methods, query processing and optimization strategies, advanced concurrency control and recovery techniques, data analysis on large databases. B669 will also cover some new trends in database applications, including data warehousing, data mining, semi-structured data management, OODB and ORDB.
Instructor: Prof. Yuqing Melanie WuOffice : LH301E
email: yuqwu@indiana.edu, yuqwu@cs.indiana.edu
Lecture : TR 1:00PM - 2:15PM
Office Hours: TBA
Lectures: On average, 3-4 papers/chapters will be covered each week. All students are expected to read the papers/chapters BEFORE class. Students are required to submit a brief summary (no more than one page) of one of the papers before class. The summary should be written solely in your own words, which summarize the key contribution and limitation of the paper.
Course project: A course project is a key component of this course. Students are expected to work on a research project in the area of database systems. A list of suggested project topics will be posted, even though the students may be able to choose a project outside of the list, with the approval of the instructor. Group size of 2-3 are recommended. Each group are required to meet with the instructor and submit milestone reports periodically. The project will be graded based on the depth of the project, the group size and the quality of the research result produced. The research project is expected to lead to a research paper in a database conference/workshop.
Grade Distribution:
Paper Reviews: 15%. Each review is graded in the scale of 0-10.
Exams: two exams. 20% each.
Project: 40%. The project will be graded based on milestone reports, final report and demo, and in-class presentation.
Participation: 5%. Students are expected actively participate in lectures and discussions. The participation grade is assigned based on the value your participation adds to the lecture.
The information contained herein is not optional. The students are responsible for conducting themselves in accordance with the rules below. Ignorance of a rule stated or referred to here is not grounds for excusal. If you have questions regarding a policy, seek advice from the instructor or assistant instructors BEFORE you act.
Academic Integrity
The principles of academic honesty and professional ethics will be vigorously enforced in this course, following the IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct, and the School of Informatics Academic Regulations. This includes the usual standards on acknowledgment of help, contributions and joint work, even when you are encouraged to build on libraries and other software written by other people. Cases of academic misconduct (including cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, interference, or facilitating academic dishonesty) will be reported to IUB Office of Student Ethics, a branch of the Office of the Dean of Students. Your submission of work to be graded in this class implies acknowledgement of this policy. If you need clarification or have any questions, please see the instructor during office hours.
Class Policies
- The webpage of the course is used as the resource for this course. Students are expected to check the board daily for announcements, reading and assignments and to participate in discussion.
- Students are responsible for assigned readings PRIOR to lectures.
- Missed exams can NOT be made up. A student who is late for exam is expected to submit the exam paper at the arrange ending time of the exam.
- Group work is NOT permitted on the paper reviews. You may research the material with one of the instructor/assistant instructors, with your peers, or with another source (including the internet), but the final write-up of your assignment must be entirely IN YOUR OWN WORDS. If any significant part of your submitted assignment overlaps with another source, you will receive a flat "0" for that assignment. In the case of unreferenced sources, the incident will be reported to the IUB Office of Student Ethics.
Group work is NOT permitted on the exams. The exams must be entirely your own work. Conducting academic misconduct and facilitating academic misconduct both violate the IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct. The penalty will be immediate failure of the course and a report to the IUB Office of Student Ethics. Note that two such reports of this type of incident are usually grounds for expulsion or suspension from the University.
- All Deadlines are enforced. No submission will be accepted after the announced deadline, except extenuating circumstances. Extenuating circumstances will normally include only serious emergencies or illnesses documented with a doctor's note.
- Students are responsible to make backups of all of their work, including code and other materials produced.
- Students are responsible for the safe and ethical use of class accounts on shared servers, according to university policy and copyright law, and for the sole purpose of carrying out class assignments. Accounts will be monitored and abuses will be reported and reflected in the grades.
- Comparing to technique issues, grading concerns have lower priority during office hours. Grading on exams can be appealed only within 10 business days after the grade is posted.
Incomplete grade
An incomplete ("I") final grade will be given only by prior arrangement in exceptional circumstances conforming to university and school policy which requires, among other things, that the student must have completed the bulk of the work required for the course with a passing grade, and that the remaining work can be made up within 30 days after the end of the semester.
Course Description | Course Text | Course Info | Course Mechanism | Course Policies
The B669 Web Pages are maintained by
Professor Yuqing Melanie Wu
©2008 Y.M. Wu