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Course Outline  

OVERVIEW

This course is structured along ten modules. The modules cover a wide range of related topics, including database systems architectures, functionality of DBMS components,  distributed database management and design, client server architectures, multi-database systems, interoperability, data warehousing, selected aspects of data mining techniques, process support systems such as workflows technology, and brief introduction to special purpose databases. 

 

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the fundamental issues involved in designing and implementing a large scale information system. By putting emphasis on illustrations, current trends, the course aims at providing an insight into cutting edge technology. This should equip the students with sufficient conceptual and practical knowledge, to be able to recognize the challenges, analyse the appropriateness of the technology and understand the design and implementation complexities while building modern Information Systems .