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:
Final 100 points ,take home(see link, due on July 10 or earlier by email to chris@bradley.edu)
Project 100 points DUE on JULY 10th
Homework 100 points HW and Proj. DUE on Wednesday, July 10th, 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: Week 1: sections 15.7, 15.8 Query Optimization PROLOG, web notes, online tutorials Week 2: chapter 20 OODBMS chapter 23 Security Week 3: sections 24.3, 24.4 Multimedia and Deductive DBMS+PROLOG Week 4: chapter 25 Distributed DBMS chapter 27 Intro to Data Mining Week 5: chapter 28 Intro to Data Warehousing and OLAP chapter 29 Emerging technologies