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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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