Professor: Iluju Kiringa (kiringa@site.uottawa.ca)
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30-12:30AM
(Increased on rush days) in my office (SITE 5072)
Lectures: Wednesday 1:00-4:00PM ; CBY B202
Topics: The course will deal with both
classical material and some of the advanced developments in the area of
distributed database management systems. Classical topics covered include: DBMS
architectures, distributed design, distributed query processing and
optimization, and distributed transaction processing and recovery.
More advanced and current
topics include data sharing settings (e.g., multidatabases, data integration,
and peer databases).
Prerequisites: Required is a solid knowledge of
relational database systems at the level of a typical undergraduate course
(e.g., CSI3317 or CSI3717). Also, a course on computer networks at the
undergraduate level is highly desirable.
Text book: T. Ozsu and P. Valduriez, Principles
of Distributed Database Systems, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999.