CS 848 (Fall 2006)
Advanced Topics in Databases: Management of Information Systems
News
Oct 9: More paper presentation assignments are now posted
in the class schedule.
Sept 14: Planning to take CS848? E-mail me your name, your
preferred e-mail address, and a prioritzed list of your preferences
for paper presentations (see the schedule).
Sept 13: Time change! CS848 is moving to an earlier time.
Starting next week (Sept 20), CS848 will meet on
Wednesdays from 12:00-2:30.
Course Overview
An information system is a database management system plus
the other components - operating systems, application servers,
web servers, and so on - that, together, can provide some
useful service such as organizing e-mail or tracking
the location of a package.
Information systems are multi-tiered and complex.
This course will cover a variety of topics
related to the problems of managing and controlling such systems
to ensure that they remain available and have adequate performance.
We will look at these topics from the perspectives of
several different system tiers, including the operating system
and resource management tier, the database management
tier, and the upper tiers.
List of topics to be covered:
- system control and tuning (admission controls, resource
allocation, scheduling and prioritization)
- system scalability (partitioning and load balancing, replication
and synchronization, dynamic caching, dynamic provisioning)
- virtualization (machine virtualization and storage virtualization)
Course Information
| Instructor: |
Ken Salem |
| Meeting Time: |
Wednesdays 12:00-14:30 |
| Location: |
DC 3313 |
| Office Hours: |
by appointment |
Workload and Evaluation
Students will be expected to read approximately three papers
each week, in advance of class. Over the course of the term,
each student will also be expected to present two or three papers
in class and to prepare reviews
of 4-6 additional papers.
Finally, there will be a term project
defined by the student.
The following marking scheme will be used:
- class participation: 10%
- paper reviews: 10%
- paper presentations: 30%
- term project: 50%
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