IS533: Advanced Topics in Databases

This course covers the following topics: Semantic data modeling, Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Concurrency Control Techniques, Database Recovery Techniques, Object Database Standards, Languages, Distributed Databases and Client-Server Architectures and Design, Query Optimization and Distributed Query Processing, Basic concepts of Database Security, Extensible Markup Language, Data Mining Techniques and tools, and/or Emerging Database Technologies and Applications.