In this project option, you will be expected to do a comprehensive literature search and survey, select and study a specific topic in one subject

In this project option, you will be expected to do a comprehensive literature search and survey, select and study a specific topic in one subject area of database systems, and write a technical paper on the selected topic all by yourself. The technical paper you are asked to write can be a detailed comprehensive survey on some specific topic or the original research work that will have been done by yourself.

Requirements and Instructions for the Technical Paper:

1. The objective of the paper should be very clear about subject, scope, domain, and the goals to be achieved.

2. The paper should address the important advanced and critical issues in a specific area of database systems. Your research paper should emphasize not only breadth of coverage, but also depth of coverage in the specific area.

3. The research paper should give the measurable conclusions and future research directions (this is your contribution).

4. It might be beneficial to review or browse through about 15 to 30 relevant technical articles before you make decision on the topic of the research project.

5. The research paper should reflect the quality at certain academic research level.

6. The paper should be about at least 25 to 40 pages (double space) in length.

7. The paper should include adequate abstraction or introduction, and reference list.

8. Please write the paper in your words and statements, and please give the names of references, citations, and resources of reference materials if you want to use the statements from other reference articles.

9. From the systematic study point of view, you may want to read a list of technical papers from relevant magazines, journals, conference proceedings and theses in the area of the topic you choose.

10. For the format and style of your research paper, please make reference to GSCIS Dissertation Guide, IEEE or ACM journal articles.

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Possible Topics for Written Report

Traditional Databases:

Buffer Management

Concurrency Control

Crash Recovery

Data Consistency, Integrity, and Security

Data Models and Data Modeling

File Structures and Access Methods

Functional Dependencies and Normalization

Index Structures

Integrity Conditions or Constraints

Lossy Join and Dangling Data Tuples

Null Values, Incomplete and Missing Information

Query Languages

Query Optimization (Techniques or Algorithms)

Security and Authorizations

Storage Managers

Transaction Processing and Management

Hierarchical Database Systems

Network Database Systems

Relational Database Systems

Object-Oriented Database Systems

Non-SQL Database Systems

Database Researches:

Active Databases

Database Machine and Database Computers

Deductive and Logic Databases

Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases

Distributed Databases

Distributed Object-Oriented Databases

Extensible Databases

Federated Databases or Heterogeneous Databases

Object-Oriented Databases

Main Memory Database Systems

Multidatabase Systems

Parallel Databases

High Performance Databases

Temporal Databases

Trusted Database Management Systems

Database Applications:

Audio/Video Database Systems

CAD/CAE/CAM/CAP/CASE/CIM Databases

Client/Server Database Systems

Engineering Databases

Genomic Databases

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Geographical Databases and Information Systems

Hypertext/Hypermedia Databases (Object)

Historical Databases

Image, Pictorial and Visual Databases

Mobile Data Management and Communication

Multimedia Databases and Information Systems

Real Time Database Systems

Scientific Databases

Software Engineering Databases

Spatial Databases

Spatiotemporal Databases

Statistical Database

Data Models and Database Modeling:

Entity-Relationship Model

Extended ER Model

Enhanced ER Model

Complex Data Model

Extended Relational Data Model

Functional Data Model

Non First Normal Data Model (NF2)

Object-Oriented Data Model

Semantic Data Model

Data Analytics:

MADlib

Access Methods:

Static/Dynamic/Extendible/Linear Hashing

Internal/External Hashing

Single Level/Multi-Level Index

Single Dimensional/Multi-Dimensional Index

B-Tree, B+-Tree, B*-Tree

Buddy-Tree

Grid-Files

K-D-Tree, K-D-B-Tree, HB-Tree

LSD-Tree

R-Tree/R+-Tree/R*-Tree/R**-Tree

Others:

Advanced Database Modeling (EER Models) Algorithms for Database Systems

Authorization in Object-Oriented Database Systems Client/Server SQL

Cloud Computing and Data Center Systems Complex and Composite Objects