LSIR course, winter semester 2005/2006 (last year's web page)

Distributed Information Systems

Description

This
course introduces in detail several key technologies underlying today's
distributed information systems. After introducing nonstandard data models
nowadays in use on the Web for information representation, we learn about
various aspects of processing this information at increasing levels of
abstraction, starting from the physical aspects of managing distributed
data up to the extraction of new information from existing data by means
of data mining. The specific focus will be on managing Web and mobile
data.

Prerequisites

We assume students to be familiar with the course relational databases.

Exercises

This year, we will have weekly programming exercises. Participation is facultative and the exercises will not be graded. Nevertheless, you should hand in your solutions to provide us feedback. We will also provide exercises and exam questions from previous years.

Bonus Intermediate Exams

We will have two written intermediate bonus exams, which each count 25%. An intermediate exam counts only if the grade is better than the grade in the final exam.

Support: Lecture slides, exercises, handwritten notes.

Final Exam

There will be a final written exam. It will consist of conceptual questions similar to those posed throughout the lecture and of examples similar to those from the exercises. Support: Lecture slides, exercises, handwritten notes, basic calculator.