Syllabus
Module No. Detailed Contents Hrs
01 Parallel Database Distributed Database and
ORDBMS :
Architecture for Parallel Databases, Types of
Distributed Databases, Distributed DBMS
Architecture, Storing Data in a Distributed DBMS.
ORDBMS: Structured Data Types, Operations on 05
Structured Data, Objects, OIDs and Reference
Types, Object oriented versus Object relational
database.
Self-Learning Topics : Mapping OODBMS to
ORDBMS
02 Data warehousing and OLAP : 06
Data warehouse: Introduction to DW, DW
architecture, ETL Process, Topdown and bottom-up
approaches, characteristics and benefits of data
mart. Dimensional Modeling: Star, snowflake and
fact constellation schema.
OLAP in the data warehouse: Major features and
functions, OLAP modelsROLAP and OLAP,
Difference between OLAP and OLTP
Self-Learning Topics: Study any one DW
implementation
03 Data Mining and Preprocessing :
Introduction to data mining, Knowledge discovery-
KDD process. Data Preprocessing: Types of
attributes, Data Cleaning - Missing values, Noisy
data, data integration and transformations. Data
Reduction - Data cube aggregation, dimensionality
reduction, data compression, Numerosity reduction, 05
discretization and concept hierarchy
Self-Learning Topics: Application of data mining in
Business Intelligence
04 Data Mining Algorithm- Association rules :
Association rule mining: support and confidence
and frequent item sets, market basket analysis,
Apriori algorithm,, Associative classification - Rule 06
Mining.
Self-Learning Topics: Association Rule Mining
applications
05 Data Mining Algorithm-Classification :
Classification methods: Statistical-based lgorithms-
Regression, Naïve Bayesian classification, 08
Distance-based algorithm- K Nearest Neighbor,
Decision Tree-based algorithms -ID3, C4.5,CART
Self-Learning Topics: Comparative study of
classification algorithms
06 Data Mining Algorithm-Clustering :
Clustering Methods: Partitioning methods- K-
Means, HierarchicalAgglomerative and divisive 06
methods Self-Learning Topics:Clustering algorithm
applications
07 Web Mining and Text Mining :
IWeb Mining: web content, web structure, web
usage. Text Mining: Text data analysis and 04
Information retrieval, text retrieval methods Self-
Learning Topics: Web Mining Applications