CSc 6710 students: Please select a topic and let me know by
April 11th. You should write a paper on a topic of your
interest.
Potential topics for research paper:
- Semantic data models
- Object-oriented databases
- Deductive databases
- Semi-structured Data
- XML
- Object-Relational Systems (Oracle8 Object features)
- Data mining
- Database Applications in Scientific and Engineering fields
(eg. Bioinformatics, CAD/CAM databases, etc.)
- Data dictionaries in a DBMS
- Incomplete information in relational databases
- Data compression in multimedia systems
- Relations versus objects
- Data compression in commercial DBMSs
- Backup and recovery in databases
- Searching image databases
- Encryption and its role in database security
- Triggers in active databases
- Supporting time in a database system
- TSQL (Temporal SQL)
- Database issues in wireless computing
Remarks:
- Your paper must have at least five published references.
- Be careful
not to take your material directly from the references.
- The best way
is to read the articles, take notes, and then write your paper.
- Also
remember to use citations in the paper to the references.
Sources of papers and reading materials:
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- ACM SIGMOD Conference
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE Conference on Data Engineering
- VLDB Journal
- Other database related conference proceedings
- Database books
A good online source for references is:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html