1. CS 244A Expanded Course Outline Fall 2007
File Allocation…………………………………………………..…….2 Hrs
Intelligent Directory Design…………….……………..…2 Hrs
Transaction Management
Deadlock…………………………………………………………..1 Hr
Concurrency Control…………………………………….…3 Hrs
Commit Protocols (2 Phase, 1 phase)…………….2 Hrs
Knowledge-base Query Processing.
Query Optimization……………………………………2 hrs
Data Warehousing………………………………………… 2 Hrs
Fault Tolerant Database……………………………..…2 Hrs
Active Database……………………………………………..2 Hrs
Semantic Query Optimization…….…….………… 2 Hrs

2. CS 244A Expanded Course Outline Fall 2007
Knowledge-Base/Database Systems
Approximate & Conceptual Query Answering…..2 Hrs
Associative Query Answering..………………………….2 Hrs
Knowledge Acquisition……………………………………….2 Hrs
Deep Web Systems…..………….……………………………………1 Hr
Resource Discovery framework………………………………1 Hr
Semantic Web and ontology…………………………………….1 Hr
Web Services……………………………………………………………… 1 Hr
Example (KMeD, Digital Libraries)…….………………….1 Hr

3. Textbook Materials Course Notes Textbook: Reference Books:
W. W. Chu “Distributed Database Systems” available at Course Reader Material,
1141 Westwood Blvd., LA (310)
Textbook:
Ozsu and Valduriez, Principles of Distributed Database System, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1999.
Reference Books:
Ceri and Pelagatti, Distributed Databases, McGraw Hill, 1984.
Bell and Grimson, Distributed Database Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1992.
Gustavo Alonso, Fabio Casati, Harumi Kuno, Vijay Machiraju , Web Services Springer Verlag, ISBN , 2003