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Information Systems Lab

Course Description

The purpose of this laboratory course is to practically explore modern techniques to build large-scale distributed information systems. Participants will work in groups of three or more students and develop projects in several phases.

The course is offered in both Fall and Spring semesters, and is co-taught by Prof. Donald Kossmann, Prof. Moira Norrie, and Prof. Nesime Tatbul. Please, contact Peter Fischer for further information and organizational matters.

Course Hours

The course will be organized in three phases:

Initial meeting and topic assignments (February 24, 4pm, room LFW E11)
Project group work (individual work, arrange meeting with your advisor, around 10 hours/week)
Common Final presentation (TBA, towards end of semester)

Project Topics

Topics will be discussed and assigned at the first meeting. Students should provide an order of preference for the topic areas below, so that we can already perform a rough assignment. Individual topics will then be negotiated in the subgroups

Object Databases

benchmarking various object database products
comparing Hibernate with object databases
comparing different architectures and implementation strategies

XQuery

Implementing and Benchmarking Scoring Strategies for XQuery Fulltext

XQuery on Android - Porting, Testing and Platform Integration
Higher Order Functions in XQuery 1.1 - Implementation and Optimizations
Running XQuery in .NET
Building an XQuery debugger for the Web browser
Integrating an XQuery processor in Flash
Building an XML database in the Web browser
Greasemonkey for XQuery
building various XQuery libraries (e.g., Facebook, twitter, and Google clients, i18n, ...)
xqunit: Unit tests for XQuery applications
Ruby + XQuery in the Cloud