Data-Base Systems

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Synopsis:

Basic data models. Types and examples of database systems. Management of database systems. Design of database systems - examples. Programming techniques. Language SQL. SQL for ORACLE. Fundamentals of programming in database systems MS ACCESS and ORACLE.

Principles of Data-mining in databases.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

P1. Introduction. General operations with information provided by data-base systems.

P2. E - R conceptual model. Limitations for relations defined in DBS.

P3. Models of Data-base System Management. Relational data-base systems. Codd

Characteristics (rules) for relational data-base systems. Set and relation operations in

relation data-base system.

P4. Architectures of Database System Management in personal computers. Systems

„client/server“.

P5. Data-base application program languages. Structured language - SQL.

P6. Programming in the system MS Access.

P7. Programming in the system of ORACLE-type..

P8. Data-based and Knowledge-Based systems. Operations with knowledge. Decision and

Control paradigms. Operations with uncertainties. Theory of fuzzy sets.

P9. Operations with fuzzy sets. Fuzzy numbers and computing with fuzzy numbers.

Linguistic variable.

P10. Fuzzy logic. Compositional rule and fuzzy inference. Types of fuzzy implications and

their properties.

P11. Rule-based systems. (Examples.)

P12. Types and kinds of knowledge representation. Expert system - modular structure.

Inference engine and its co-operations with knowledge-base. System ETS.

P13. Expert systems - examples (FELExpert, TRACER, XCON/XSELL, KEE, NEST,

G2).

P14. Future of database and knowledge systems. Conclusions of lectures.

Syllabus of tutorials:

C1. Fundamentals of work with Data-base systems.

C2. Data-based systems for non-programmers.

C3. Introduction in data-base system MS ACCESS. Realisation of set and relational

operations.

C4. Structured language - SQL. Assignment of semester tasks.

C5. Programming in MS ACCESS.

C6. Programming in data-base system ORACLE.

C7. Programming in ACCESS versus programming in ORACLE.

C8. Fuzzy numbers, computing with fuzzy numbers.

C9. Fuzzy logic. Compositional rule and fuzzy inference. Types of fuzzy implications and

their properties.

C10. Rule-based systems. Expert system ETS. Assignment of semester tasks.

C11. Expert system ETS - examples. Expert system NEST.

C12. Expert system NEST.

C13. Assistance and testing of results of semester tasks.

C14. Testing of semester tasks. Conclusion of the semester.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Bíla, Král : Data-based and Knowledge-based systems. CTU in Prague, Prague, 1999.

2. Bíla, Král, Hlaváč: Information Technologies. Data-base and Knowledge-based systems. CTU in Prague, Prague, 2003.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: