CP3020 - Advanced Data Management

[Offered in even-numbered years in Cairns, Townsville. ]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Business

The aims of this subject are to gain an understanding of the major issues involved in the design of database management systems, to study approaches involved in managing large collections of data and extracting useful information from them and to study how advanced data management techniques are being applied in the business context. Topics covered include distributed databases, data warehousing, information management and retrieval, concurrency, security, diverse contemporary database systems and examination of new database technologies.

Learning Outcomes

• understand different database management system architectures including distributed databases, temporal databases, multimedia databases, web databases and spatial databases;
• understand advanced issues in database design and management;
• manipulate diverse database management systems.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently.

Prerequisites:	CO3811 OR CP1500
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP5520

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coord/Lect:	Dr Hossein Ghodosi.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); quizzes or tests (10% - 20%); assignments (20% - 40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Hossein Ghodosi
Lecturer:	Dr Kim Ku.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); quizzes or tests (10% - 20%); assignments (20% - 40%).
Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 69
Census Date 07-Oct-2010
Coordinator:	Dr Hossein Ghodosi
Lecturer:	Dr Kim Ku.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50% - 60%); quizzes or tests (10% - 20%); assignments (20% - 40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.