CS 532-3
Advanced Topics in Information Systems
Catalog Description
A detailed study of two or three topics relevant to information systems. Topics may include but are not limited to sorting, searching, information retrieval and automatic text processing, database security and encryption, distributed databases, and data communication.
Prerequisite:
CS 430 and consent of instructor.
Objectives
To provide the student with an in-depth knowledge of two or more important topics from the area of information systems. Possible topics include object-oriented systems, distributed database, knowledge-base systems, encryption, data compression, hashing, indexed files, and storage architectures.
Course Outline
| 1. | Distributed databases | |
| 2. | Object-oriented systems | |
| 3. | Information retrieval and automatic text processing | |
| 4. | Knowledge-base systems | |
| 5. | Encryption | |
| 6. | Query optimization. | |
| 7. | Hashing | |
| 8. | Indexed files | |
| 9. | Internal sorting | |
| 10. | External sorting | |
| 11. | Searching | |
| 12. | Data compression and coding | |
| 13. | Secondary memory architecture | |