Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
http://www.dis.uu.se/~torer/kurser/dpmuldb.html
Course type:
External doctoral student course.
Registration
Participation only through registering with Tore.Risch@it.uu.se
by May 2nd 2002. The course is primarily reserved for students from the
ENDREA and WIM networks and selected local PhD students.
Starts:
May 6-8, 2002, Uppsala University
Points:
5
Prerequisites:
Basic computer science and database courses.
Contents:
The computing environments have become increasingly distributed through
the use of Internet and other computer communication networks. What
we are experiencing is an ever increasing access to more or less
structured information that is furthermore very dynamic and is continuously
changing. In this environment it is getting more and more critical
to develop methods for building systems that combine relevant data
from many sources and present them in a form which is comprehensible for
users. It is getting important to develop tools that facilitate the
efficient development and maintenance of information systems in a highly
dynamic and distributed environment. The area of distributed databases
deals with design and management of uniform databases whose contents is
transparently distributed over several database nodes in a computer network.
Parallell databases deal with high performance databases whose data is
automatically distributed over many internal data servers. The area of
multi-database systems deals with managing and querying data from collections
of heterogeneous databases.
This graduate course provides the basic knowledge of the state-of-the-art
of distributed and heterogeneous databases. The course first covers the
principles of distributed and multi-database systems and
then Scalable and Distributed Data Structures, SDDSs, which are
storage structures for scalable data represesentation in large distributed
systems and parallell databases. The intensive course is given by Professor
Witold Litwin, Dauphine University, Paris (France), this year's receiver
of ACM fellowship award, and Professor Tore Risch, Uppsala University.
Preliminary Topics:
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Architectures of distributed databases
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Multidatabases
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Introduction to Scalable and Distributed Storage Structures (SDDS)
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Hash based, tree based, and spatial SDDSs
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SDDSs for high availability
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Scalable availability
Literature:
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M.T.Özsu, P.Valduriez: Principles of Distributed Database Systems,
Prentice Hall, 1999
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Distributed articles
Slides and course material:
Introduction and overview
Papers and slides
Schedule:
This course will be given at Uppsala University, starting May 6,
2001 in the morning. There will be an intensive course on SDDSs with daily
lectures.
Responsible:
Professor
Tore Risch, E-mail:
Tore.Risch@it.uu.se,
phone: +46 18 471 63 42
Professor Witold Litwin, Dauphine Univ., Paris, France, http://ceria.dauphine.fr/,
E-mail: Witold.Litwin@dauphine.fr
Examination
To pass the examination you have to write a term paper on some subject
covered by the course. Either you choose any of the subjects below from
the text book or you can choose a subject that was covered in Witold’s
lectures.
A term paper is a five page (single spaced) overview of a subject.
Possible subjects from text book:
1. Distributed database design (ch 5)
2. Semantic data control (ch 6)
4. Optimization of distributed queries (ch 8, 9)
5. Distributed concurrency control (ch 11)
6. Distributed DBMS reliability (ch 12)
7. Parallel database systems (ch 13)
8. Distributed object database systems (ch 14)
Send email to Tore.Risch@it.uu.se before week 22 on what subject you
have chosen.
Location and time
The course will take place in room 1113 in house 1 on the MIC Campus area
(Polacksbacken) of Uppsala University. The course starts May 6th, 10:15
and ends ca 15:00, May 8th.
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For more information, write an e-mail to Tore.Risch@it.uu.se