CS 410/510 Data Streams

Fall 2007

 

Course Description

Data streams are common in many types of applications from network-security monitoring and click-stream analysis to traffic management, and environmental sensing. Over the past few years, there has been a large amount of research into the design and development of Data Stream Managment Systems (DSMS). Data streams are interesting because they are potentially infinite and because their arrival is out of control of the database systems--two issues traditional databases are not designed to handle. This course will examine issues including: data stream applications; architectures, languages, and optimization for stream query systems; disordered data streams; and performance analysis and benchmarking of DSMS.  Students in this course will gain a broad understanding of current data stream research. The instructors of this course have been active in the area of data stream research since its inception five years ago.

General Information

Prerequisites

Students must have a knowledge of database design, implementation, and query languages (CS 386, CS 586 or equivalent) and  must be comfortable programming in a language appropriate for systems implementation, such as Java, C, or C++.

Assignments

There will be three types of assignments, study questions, a 3 page paper, and a programming project.

Exams

There will be no exams in this class.

Policies

Academic Integrity

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