Advanced Database Systems
COSC 6421
Winter 2008
York University


Semester: Winter 2008
Course/Sect#: COSC 6421
Time: Tuesday 1:00-2:15pm
Thursday 1:00-2:15pm
Location: BC 225
Instructor: Jarek Gryz
Office: 2049 CSB
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-3pm
Thursday 2:30-3pm
and by appointment
Ph#: 416-736-2100 x70150
e-mail: [my first name]@cs.yorku.ca


Welcome to the Advanced Database Systems course, COSC-6421 for Winter term 2008. Materials, instructions, and notices for the course will accumulate here over the semester.


Materials

Presentation Schedule (subject to change)

Date Topic Presenters
Feb 19 Introduction to spatial database systems Abdel Hadi Hor
Feb 21 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
Feb 26 TBA TBA
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Feb 28 TBA TBA
TBA TBA
Mar 4 Gang Luo: Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries Damon Sotoudeh-Hosseini
TBA TBA
Mar 6 Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Daniel Frank, Goetz Graefe, Joel E. Richardson, Eugene J. Shekita, M. Muralikrishna: The Architecture of the EXODUS Extensible DBMS. On Object-Oriented Database System Hooman Baradaran
TBA TBA
Mar 11 The count bug Sujatha Thanigaimani
Mar 13 Optimization of individual operators: Join Yi Feng
Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates Seyed Pourya Seyed Jafari
Mar 18 Histograms Hashmat Rohian
Top-k queries Marcin Kwietniewski
Mar 20 Introduction to Data Integration Przemyslaw Pawluk
Mar 25 Using EELs, a Practical Approach to Outerjoin and Antijoin Reordering Hui Wang
TBA TBA
Mar 27 Making database systems usable H. V. Jagadish, Adriane Chapman, Aaron Elkiss, Magesh Jayapandian, Yunyao Li, Arnab Nandi, Cong Yu Christiano Santiago
Schema matching: - Matching Large XML Schemas (Erhard Rahm, Hong-Hai Do, Sabine Maßmann) - Putting Context Into Schema Matching (Philip Bohannon, Eiman Elnahrawy, Wenfei Fan, Michael Flaster) Christiano Santiago
Apr 1 TBA TBA
TBA TBA

Useful On-line Information
  • For the textbook
    • On-line support materials by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke.
      Includes:
      • General lecture notes related with the book.
      • Answers to the odd-numbered exercises in the book.