CIS331 - Principles of Database Systems

Spring 2004

Instructor

• Vasileios Megalooikonomou , email: vasilis@cis.temple.edu
• Office: 314 Wachman Hall, phone: 215-204-5774
• Office Hours: Tu 1-2:30pm, Th 1-2:30pm and by appointment

TA

• Vladimir Vacic (Vlada), email: vladimir@vacic.org
• Office: 321 Wachman Hall, phone: 215-204-7230
• Office Hours: M 2-3pm (Wachman 321), F 2:30-4:30pm (Wachman 215) and by appointment

Class

• Meets: Tu Th 11:40-1:00pm, room: Tuttleman Learning Center 305A

Lab

• Meets: M 8:40-10:30am, room: CC200
• Lab web site
• Lab policy

E-mail

• The mailing list CIS331-S04@LISTSERV.TEMPLE.EDU will be created for the class and it will be used to send messages about the presentations, projects, and other topics. I expect that you read your email regularly. Otherwise you may miss important information. Please send email to vasilis@cis.temple.edu to be added to the mailing list.

Course Syllabus

Schedule

Announcements

• The midterm exam is on March 4, 11:40-1pm
• The final exam is on May 6, 11-1pm

Projects

• Main Project
• Extra Credit Project

Other documents available electronically

• Lectures
• Slides
• Homework
• Other material
• Midterm study guide
• Final exam study guide
• SQL and database management
• Oracle online documentation
• Oracle Database at Temple
• Handouts

Other resources

• ACM SIGMOD (Management of Data).
• Very Large Data Bases.
• ACM SIGKDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
• Software: Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Machine Learning Database Repository at UCI
• Data Mining in Molecular Biology Databases
• IBM - QUEST Data Mining Project
• Free/public database software
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• Numerical Recipes in C (e-copy)