CS561. Advanced Topics in Database Systems
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Tentative Schedule: Schedule might change slightly later on as appropriate.


Week
Day
Topic(s)
Presenter
Week 1
01/12/2012
No Class on Jan12. Our first meeting is on Jan 17.

Week 2 01/17/2012
Introduction, Logistics, and Topics Overview Instructor
01/19/2012
Object-Oriented Data Model and Querying Instructor
Week 3 01/24/2012
Object-Oriented Data Model and Querying Instructor
01/26/2012
Distributed and Parallel Databases Instructor
Week 4
01/31/2012
Distributed and Parallel Databases Instructor
02/02/2012
Hadoop & MapReduce Infrastructure Instructor
Week 5
02/07/2012
Paper: Hadoop-related
A comparison of join algorithms for log processing in mapreduce
Devin Thomas
02/09/2012 Paper: Hadoop-related
HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads
Zheng, Yang
Week 6
02/14/2012 Scientific Data Management Instructor
02/16/2012 Paper: Scientific Data Management-related
MONDRIAN: Annotating and querying databases through colors and blocks
Karim Ibrahim
Week 7
02/21/2012 Paper: Scientific Data Management-related
From Data Integration to Scientific Workflow
Ductan, Annies
02/23/2012 Paper: Keyword Search in Databases-related
Building a Database on S3
Pankaj Didwania
Week 8
02/28/2012 Active DBs, Authorization, and Security
Instructor
03/01/2012 Active DBs, Authorization, and Security Instructor
Week 9
03/06/2012 Break

03/08/2012
Week 10
03/13/2012 Information Integration + OLAP
Instructor
03/15/2012 Information Integration + OLAP
Instructor
Week 11
03/20/2012 Paper: Topic of choice
Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce
Devin Thomas
03/22/2012 Paper: Topic of choice
Data Management in the Cloud: Limitations and Opportunities
Ductan, Annies
Week 12
03/27/2012 Paper: Topic of choic
Keyword search in databases: the power of RDBMS
Karim Ibrahim
03/29/2012 Semi-Structured Data Model & Querying
Instructor
Week 13
04/03/2012 No Class

04/05/2012 Paper: Topic of choic
ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs
Zheng, Yang
Week 14
04/10/2012 Semi-Structured Data Querying (XPath and XQuery)
Instructor
04/12/2012 Paper: Topic of choice
Achieving the Cloud Computing Vision
Pankaj Didwania
Week 15
04/17/2012 Revision Instructor
04/19/2012 Final Exam

Week 16
04/24/2012 Project Presentations

04/26/2012 Project Presentations