SIE 556: Information Systems Architecture, Fall 2004

Syllabus:

Section 1: From Data to Information

• Introduction
• Data, Data Structure, Data Modeling

Section 2: Distributed Information Systems

• Distributed Information Systems - Intro
• System Layers: Networks
• System Layers: Operating Systems and Middleware
• Common Infrastructure Platform: The WWW
• Presentation: SOAP/UDDI (A. Nural)
• Coordination in Distributed Information Systems

Section 3: Information Systems Integration

• Information System Integration, Part 1
• Information System Integration, Part 2

Section 4: Information System Design

• Presentation (S. Srinivasan)

Additional Reading Material:

Section 1:

Shannon, C.E. "A Mathematical Theory of Communication",Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379-423 and 623-656, July and October, 1948.

SIMS, UC Berkeley "How Much Information? ", 2003

P. Shenoy and J. Gray. Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering. In Proc. 16th IEEE Conf. on Data Engineering, San Diego, Calif., April 2000.

J. Gray. Distributed Computing Economics, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-24, Redmond, Wash., March 2003.

Section 2

Distributed Systems, Concepts and Design, G. Coulouris, J. Dollimore, T. Kindberg

Optional: Distributed Systems, Principles and Paradigms, A. Tannenbaum, M. van Steen .

Section 3

H. Garcia-Molina, et al. The Tsimmis Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2 (1997).

Y. Papakonstantinou, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Widom, Object Exchange Across Heterogeneous Information Sources, ICDE, 1995 .