SCHEDULE for CS 5708, Spring 2004

The schedule indicates the concepts and material to be (un)covered in each week under the column labelled "Topics". The chapters in the textbook are referred to by the chapter number or Appendix number.
Homeworks will be due on Tuesday. Mid-term examinations will take at the second meeting in designated weeks. Other meeting in that week may be used for discussions, review or practice examination.

Note: The midterm exam. has been rescheduled to Th. 3/25 in accordance to our discussions on 2/24/04.

Week	Dates	Lecture Topics	Textbook	Supplement	Due	Feedback
1	1/20, 22	Introductions, File Structures	13
2	1/29, 29	Index Structures	14	1
3	2/3, 5	Query Processing	15	2
4	2/10, 12	Query Optimization	15	4	HW 1
5	2/17, 19	Transactions	17	8		HW 1
6	2/24, 26	Concurrency Control	18	7	HW 2
7	3/2, 4	Recovery				HW 2
8	3/9, 11	Database Security	19	9
9	3/16, 18	Spring Break
10	3/23, 25	Discussion, Review	23	5	MS Exam
11	3/30, 4/1	Distributed Databases	25	12
12	4/6, 8	Data Warehouses	28	9	HW 3	MS Exam
13	4/13, 15	Data Mining	27			HW 3
14	4/20, 22	Object Relational Databases	22		HW4
15	4/27, 29	XML	26	13		HW4
16	5/4, 6	tbd, Summary
17	5/11	Final Exam(8:00-10:00am)

This class will use small active group learning techniques for few minutes (say, 5 minutes) in several class meetings to enhance the learning environment of the class meetings. The performance of a student during these exercises will have no bearing on his/her grades. Students will work in a small group of two or three on an exercise or a discussion question provided in the class meeting. After this, a randomly chosen student will be invited to summarize the discussion in his/her group. Other students in the class may paraphrase and improve the presented material.