[aus.general] Advanced Databases Course - workshop at La Trobe University

johnz@latcs1.oz.au (John Zeleznikow) (07/13/90)

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		"ADVANCED DATABASES FOR THE 1990'S"			

		 course run by

		DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING	

		and

	 	APPLIED COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE			

		LA TROBE UNIVERSITY					

This course is unique to Australia, and is to be conducted by a team of
researchers expert in current database technology. It will allow practioners,
researchers and developers of databases to learn the latest skills from
current and future world leaders.

Topics to be discussed will be selected from:

- Database Machines						
- Federated Databases
- Heterogeneous Databases
- Distributed Database Design
- Distributed Query Processing
- Transaction Management
- Semantic  and Object Oriented Data Modelling
- Object Oriented Databases
- Object Oriented Knowledge Based Management Systems
- Geographic Information Systems
- Second Generation Relational Databases
- Relational Database Deficiencies
- Databases and Logic
- Coupling Expert Systems and Databases
- Knowledge Based Databases
- Parallel Database Machines

Speakers will include:


Dr. John Zeleznikow,
Head, Database Research Laboratory, Applied Computing Research Institute,
and Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University, Australia

- Introduction to Advanced Databases
- Logic and Databases
- Knowledge Based Databases

Fridays 3 and 10 August 1990, 9.30a.m. - 12.30p.m.


Dr. Jane Grimson
Director Database Group, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

- Coupling Expert Systems and Databases

Tuesday 7 August 1990,  2.00p.m. - 5.30p.m.

Professor Robert Meersman
INFOLAB, Netherlands.

-Relational Model deficiencies
-Second-Generation RDBMS
-Semantic Data Models (EER, NIAM, constraints,...)
-Object-Oriented Databases
-A semantic modeling case study (uses NIAM)
-DB and CASE: new tools
-New database systems technology (client/server etc.)
-Future directions

Wednesday 8 August 1990, 9a.m. - 12.30p.m. and 2p.m.- 5.30p.m.


Dr. Patrick Valduriez,
Director SABRE Project, INRIA, France.

- Distributed Database Design
- Distributed Querying Processing

Friday 17 August 1990, 9.30a.m. - 12.30p.m.


Professor David K. Hsiao
Naval Postgraduate College, Maryland, U.S.A.

- General Overview of Databases
- Database Machines
- Federated Databases

Friday 17 August 1990, 2p.m. - 5p.m.

Professor Marek Rusinkewicz,
University of Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

- Transaction Management in Multidatabase Environment

Friday 17 August 1990, 6p.m. - 9p.m.

Professor Stanley Y. W. Su
University of Florida, U.S.A.

"An Object-oriented Knowledge Based Management Technology: Model, Languages,
 Algebra and Implementation"

- object-oriented association model OSAM*
- object-oriented query language OQL
- underlying constraint and deductive languages
- underlying association algebra A-algebra
- prototype KBMS and its user interface

Tuesday 21 August 1990, 9.30a.m. - 1p.m.

Professor Roger King
University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.

"Maintenance of computed data in Object-Oriented Databases"

- semantic and object-oriented data models
- graphical interfaces to databases

Friday 24 August 1990, 9.30a.m. - 1p.m.




Professor Hanan Sammet
University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland, U.S.A.

"An Overview of Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures" 

Thursday 30 August 1990, 9.30a.m. - 1p.m.

For fuerther information contact:

John Zeleznikow	(johnz@latcs1.oz.au)

Phone:	61.3.479-1003(office)
	61.3.479-1107(message)
	61.3.571-5475(home)
	61.3.470-4915(fax)

Fees are $A700 for the course and $200 per session. Academic staff and students
pay half price. Lecture materials relevant lunches and dinners and morning
and afternoon teas are included.