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The Databases Specialisation:

Advanced Databases;

Current Trends in Databases

Bettina BerendtSeptember 2009

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Computer Science

http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~berendt/teaching/

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Role of these two courses in the curriculum

Advanced Databases (6 SPs) Mandatory for people who take the Databases

specialisation

Open to everybody else

Current Trends in Databases (6 SPs) Optional

Requirements: Advanced Databases and/or Text-based Information Retrieval ( the other mandatory course in the specialisation)

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Top-level questions

What makes data powerful?

How does science work?

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Style of these two courses

Advanced Databases Mode: Lecture + exercises

Materials: Extensive slideset + original literature (mostly basic)

Evaluation: ongoing, homeworks (models, programs, reports, oral presentations, peer-review)

Current Trends in Databases Mode:

– The Database specialisation‘s equivalent of Capita Selecta

– Mini-workshops together with U Antwerp and U Hasselt, mixed student teams

Materials: Original literature (basic to advanced)

Evaluation: ongoing, presentation and co-presentation, teamwork exercises, discussion, written homework

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Who are we? (as of 2009/2010 +)

Advanced Databases

Current Trends in Databases

Ilija Subašić

Bettina Berendt

Marie-FrancineMoens

Erik Duval

Jan VanDen Bussche (UH)

Alvaro Cortes-Calabuig (UA)

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ADB: What makes data powerful? (1)

A well-understood,mature and performant approach:

relational databases

Conceptual model

Logical model

Physical model

(and their implementations)

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ADB: What makes data powerful? (2)

„Where do our best customers live?“

SELECT cust.zip

FROM cust,purchase

WHERE cust.id = purchase.custID

ORDER BY purchase.value

< ... >

combination

inference

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Data are powerful

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Data are more powerful when combined/mined (1)

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Data are more powerful when combined/mined (2)

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Data are more powerful when combined/mined (3)

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Data are more powerful when combined/mined (4)

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Plan (last year to be adjusted)

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CTDB: 2009, 2010 editions

2010:

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Work style (1): More individual-oriented

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Topics: Questions, starting literature, hints, ...

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Work style (2): More team-oriented

To increase networking and cross-understanding:

between topics

between sites

between participants

between the sessions of the course ,

teams

work on a joint topic and create a wiki presentation

prepare questions for the plenum

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