COP5725 Advanced Database Systems (Spring 2013)

Lecture Schedule

This page provides the schedule of lecture topics, reading materials, and important milestones/deadlines. Please note: as a plan, the schedule is subject to changes and adjustments (Reference: University academic calendar)
Reading refers to the textbook chapter or sections. See the table of contents

The course begins on Tuesday Jan. 8, 2013 at HTL 0217. See you then!

Week	Topics	Reading	Paper/Assignment	Project
1 (01/08, 01/10)	-- Introduction -- Recap: database fundamentals	Chapter 1, 2, 4	Paper 1
2 (01/15, 01/17) classroom changed to HCB 212	Recap: database fundamentals	Chapter 5, 6, 7	Paper 1 due on 01/17
3 (01/22, 01/24)	Data storage and representation	Chapter 13	Paper 2	Stage 1
4 (01/29, 01/31)	-- Data storage and representation -- Quiz 1 -- Advanced Indexing	Chapter 14	Paper 2 due on 01/31
5 (02/05, 02/07)	Advanced Indexing	Chapter 15	Paper 3
6 (02/12, 02/14)	Query processing	Chapter 15	Paper 3 due on 02/14	Stage 2
7 (02/19, 02/21)	-- Query processing -- Quiz 2 -- Bharat Bobba -- Subir Jaidka -- Sree Ravi -- Jeremy Hatcher	Chapter 15	Paper 4 (Omit Section 4, 5)
8 (02/26, 02/28)	-- Query processing -- Query optimization -- Harsha Panasa -- Vijay Adusumalli -- Anju Chemicala -- Gewen He	Chapter 16	Paper 4 due on 02/28 Assignment 1
9 (03/05, 03/07)	-- Query optimization -- Sebastian Chande -- Tathagata Mukherjee -- Md Atiqul Mollah -- Sharanya Jayaraman	Chapter 16	Paper 5	Stage 3 due at noon 12pm Firday 03/08
10 (03/12, 03/14) Spring break. No class
11 (03/19, 03/21)	-- Parallel Data Processing -- Quiz 3 -- Chaity Banerjee Mukherjee -- Manal Bayousef -- Theerdha Siripurapu -- David Lhamonie	Chapter 20.2	Assignment 1 due on 03/19 Paper 5 due on 03/21
12 (03/26, 03/28)	-- Parallel Data Processing -- Gopinath Kilaru -- Govardhan Koppolu -- Avishek Mukherjee -- Divya Tummala	Chapter 20.2	Paper 6
13 (04/02, 04/04)	-- Data Mining -- Guanyu Tian -- Ben Buzbee -- Abdullah Alshemaly -- Mir Anamul Hasan	Chapter 22	Paper 6 due on Thursday 04/04	Stage 4 Due on Tuesday, 04/02
14 (04/09, 04/11)	-- Data Mining -- Doug Wussler -- Srinath Viswanathan -- Sudipta Karmakar -- Menghe Zhang	Chapter 22	Assignment 2 Paper 7
15 (04/16, 04/18)	-- Data Mining -- Quiz 4 -- Michael Backherms -- Ivan Lozano -- Ryan Gidus -- Varun Venkatesan	Chapter 22	Paper 7 due on Thursday 04/18
16 (04/23, 04/25)	-- Final review -- Esra Akbas -- Asia Aljahdali -- Zhou Tong -- Ritvik Gupta		Assignment 2 due on Tuesday 04/23	Stage 5 due on Thursday 04/25
17	Final Exam (04/29, Monday 10am-12pm)