Description

This course allows the introduction of material relating to current database research topics, and current advances in database technology. It will thus provide a foundation for understanding advanced topics, such as Distributed Database Systems, Data Warehouse and OLAP, Data Mining, Web Databases and XML, Object Database, Active, Temporal, Intelligent and Deductive Databases, Heterogeneous Databases, Digital Library, Multimedia Databases, and Mobile Databases.

Program

Master of Computing in Computer Science

Objectives

• Students will be able to demonstrate Knowledge of:
  • Distributed Database Systems.
  • Data Warehouse and OLAP.
  • Data Mining.
  • Web Databases.
  • XML
  • Object Database.
  • Active, Temporal, Intelligent and Deductive Databases.
  • Heterogeneous Databases.
  • Digital Library and Multimedia Databases.
  • Mobile Databases.
  • Writing survey papers about a narrow topic.
  • Implementing software applications.