Data Management
CIS 616 – Spring 2005
Meeting days:
Monday, 4:40P - 7:10P,
TL403B Instructor: Slobodan
Vucetic, 304 Wachman Hall, phone: 204-5535,
www.ist.temple.edu/~vucetic Office Hours:
Wednesday 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Friday 3:00pm - 4:00pm, or by appointment prerequisites: CIS551 and CIS561. If you have not taken these courses, please see me
asap.
textbooks:
Required:
A. Silberschatz, H.F. Korth, and S. Sudarshan, Database System Concepts, 4th edition, McGraw Hill Inc.
Optional:
Raghu Ramakrishnan: Database Management Systems, McGraw Hill
Jeffrey Ullman: Principles of database and knowledge-base systems
Patrick O'Neil: Database Principles Programming Performance, Morgan Kaufmann
Raymond Lorie and Jean-Jacques Daudenarde: SQL and Its Applications
Topics:
PROJECT:
The course load involves a project in Oracle/MSAccess. Through this project you will get hands-on experience, designing and implementing an application on a database system.
Grading:
Homework 20%, Class Presentation 10%, Midterm 20%, Individual Project 20%, Final Exam 30%.
LATE POLICY AND ACADEMIC HONESTY:
The projects and homework assignments are due in class, on the specified due date. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS will be accepted. For fairness, this policy will be strictly enforced. Academic honesty is taken seriously. You must write up your own solutions and code. For homework problems or projects you are allowed to discuss the problems or assignments verbally with other class members or instructor. You MUST acknowledge the people with whom you discussed your work. Any other sources (e.g. Web, research papers, books) used for solutions and code MUST also be acknowledged.
DISABILITY DISCLOSURE STATEMENT:
Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately to discuss the specific situation as soon as possible. Contact Disability Resources and Services at 215-204-1280 in 100 Ritter Annex to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities.