Distributed Database Systems (CS-5323)
Spring 2012
Course Overview
Use of distributed systems has become a common practice in today’s computing
environment especially with the easy access of the internet. Distributed Database
Systems (DDBSs), however, are generally implemented in relatively large organizations.
The course is research-oriented for the graduate students, we will cover only necessary
part from the book, so that we can lay the foundation for the research papers reading.
After that we will move to the research papers that will be focusing on the topics related
to Database Integration. Students will read research papers and present the overview in
the class. Along with that all the reviews will be gathered in the form of a report that we
will try to transform into a research paper to be submitted somewhere. You submit the
paper at a reasonable place and get 20/20 marks of research portion of course evaluation.
That I think is a major incentive.
Prerequisite
Introduction to Database Systems {CS-2313}
Methodology
There will be 32 lectures each of 90 minutes duration. The lectures will be delivered in a
mixture of Urdu and English. The lectures will be heavily supported by slide
presentations. The slides for a lecture will be made available on the JUWeb that will also
be used to provide lecture and other supporting material from the course to the students.
Grading
There will be a Mid-term exam and one final exam; number of quizzes, assignments,
presentation and research paper review. These will contribute the following percentages
to the final grade:
Mid term exam 20%
Final 40%
A and Q 15%
Paper review/Project 20%
Class participation 05%
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