Instructor: Pabitra Mitra, Room
No CS310, pabitra@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in
Textbooks:
Database Systems Concepts, Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan,
McGrawhill International Edition DBMS Laboratory
Term Paper:
Term papers may be done in groups of at most 3 students. Term papers
will be evaluated based on a short presentation and a report. The
presentation will be scheduled in the week preceding endsem. Plagiarism
will be strictly penalised. The purpose of the term paper is self study
on some research problems. Some topic sketches are mentioned below.
Please mail me if you require clarification/help to finalise your
topic. Final topic of the groups should be mailed to me in a weeks time.
1. Mobile Data Management: Disk in the Air
http://www.bell-labs.com/user/acharya/papers/thesis.ps.gz
2. Streaming data management
Join queries on data streams using Sketches
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes/papers/2003/sigmod2003-loadShedding.pdf
3. Data management in sensor networks
4. Data mining
5. Multimedia database
6. XML databases
7. Distributed database
8. Privacy preserving databases
9. Database security
10. Algorithms for large data
Here is a roadmap of future of database research:
http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/lowell/LowellDatabaseResearchSelfAssessment.htm
