Module COMP51615: Semantic Web and Web Information Systems

Department: Computer Science

COMP51615: Semantic Web and Web Information Systems

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Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• Advanced web-based databases provide an excellent vehicle for addressing many modern web based support technologies. Additionally they are motivated by many real-world examples, and issues of scale thus include grid computing and parallel systems. The aim is thus to establish clear advanced principles of database design, and incorporate (partly through laboratory work), key modern technologies.

Content

• Introduction
• E-R management, relational model and algebra, SQL, and database design, more PHP
• Data storage, B+ Tree indexing and query evaluation
• Database security and access control
• Advanced transaction operations and management
• Distributed and parallel databases
• Internet databases, XML and information integration
• Decision support and data warehousing
• Object-oriented databases and object-relational databses
• Database design case study - the internet flight booking system
• Requirements analysis
• Conceptual and logical design
• Schema refinement
• Physical database design
• Information integration from multiple bac-end data sources
• Security
• Application Layers
• System Testing and Evaluation

Learning Outcomes

• Specialist knowledge: advanced level of theory, principles and practice of database management systems - lecture based
• Management: the module project and lab assignments
• the engineering of software systems: distributed DBs, internet DBs, OODBs and ORDBs; the module project

• Design integration: integration of various techniques including data storage, transactions, security and concurrency control techniques; the module project
• Practical design skills: data storage, database security, internet databases and XML; the model project

• Professional skills: module assignments, seminars and the project for database design case study

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The module comprises 1 week's intensive directed reading and laboratory exercises; 5 days of lectures, tutorial, and reading and two weeks undertaking a major assignment. The overall workload conforms to the standard SLAT requirement of 150 hours equivalent to 15 credits.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Staged written feedback of practical work by staff/demonstrators. Level of success in practical programming exercises, using written feedback from demonstrators.