CS  505    SUMMER 08  

Instructor: Dr. Chris Nikolopoulos

Office: BR 197

Tel.: 677-2456

Office hours: before/after class and by appointment.

E-mail: chris@bradley.edu

Texts: Database Systems, Elmarsi/Navathe, Addison Wesley

Grading: 90 - 100 A

80 - 90 B

e.t.c.

Based on: Midterm 100 points ON: Friday, June 27 th

Final 100 points Part1(20 points on Monday, July 7 th on Ch. 21 OOML queries), Part2 is take home(80 points,see link, due on July 11 th)

Project 50 points DUE on JULY 9th

Homework 100 points HW and Proj. DUE on Wednesday, July 9th, 10:00 p.m. by email to chris@bradley.edu

We will cover Intelligent Databases in general and Deductive Databases, Fuzzy Databases, Multimedia Databases, Object Oriented Databases and Distributed Databases. For deductive, fuzzy and object oriented databases, we will use as an implementation language the declarative language PROLOG to build deductive and OO database prototypes. We will cover elements of Machine Learning such as neural networks, decision and classification trees, and the integration of DBMS and ML into Data Mining. Content to be covered from the book: sections 15.7, 15.8 chapter 20 chapter 23 sections 24.3, 24.4 chapter 25 chapter 27 chapter 28 chapter 29