Handbook

Data Warehouse: (a) Data Model for Data Warehouses. (b) Implementing Data Warehouses: data extraction, cleansing, transformation and loading, data cube computation, materialized view selection, OLAP query processing. Data Mining: (a) Fundamentals: data mining process and system architecture, relationship with data warehouse and OLAP systems, data pre-processing. (b) Mining Techniques and Application: association rules, mining spatial databases, mining multimedia databases, web mining, mining sequence and time-series data, text mining, etc. The lecture materials will be complemented by projects /assignments.