MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Monday, 06-Jan-97 20:25:28 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 2014 Last-Modified: Wednesday, 04-Sep-96 19:34:01 GMT CS395T, Mining and Monitoring Databases

CS395T, Mining and Monitoring Databases

Instructor

Daniel P. Miranker

Course Information

This semester the course will revolve around a new project I am launching,Alamo: The Net as a Data Warehouse". Thus, the project and the course provide an integrated umbrella for the investigation of distributed databases, data mining and web programming. The Alamo project is just getting started. It will be, and by some measures already is, a very large project. Attendance in this course, besides providing a broad background in contemporary database issues, provides an opportunity to get in at the begining and help form the original foundatations.

The course will consist of two parts. The first third of the semester will be taught as a lecture course. The lectures will cover introductions to active-databases, deductive-databases, object-oriented databases and data mining. Homeworks will include writing a Java-applet and assembling a home page for yourself. The second part of the class will be conducted as a seminar class. Depending on enrollment each student will be responsible one or two presentations. Students will conduct a term project. Students may develop their own projects or may pick one from a list that will include a revised version of the World-Wide Herbarium (.ps) project successfully executed by students last year in CS386 Database Management.

Readings

A collection of papers that will be available from the Paradigm Copy shop. Last year's reading list Part 1 (.ps) Part 2 (.ps). This year active databases will be deemphasized and further issues of Distributed Computing will be introduced.