The Programme

Module description - Data Engineering

COMP7102. Transaction processing

The goal is to study the fundamentals of database transaction processing, with emphasis on advanced transaction processing techniques. Topics may include serializability theory, concurrency control protocols, database recovery protocols, distributed transaction processing, real-time databases.

COMP7103. Data mining

Data mining is the automatic discovery of statistically interesting and potentially useful patterns from large amounts of data. The goal of the course is to study the main methods used today for data mining and on-line analytical processing. Topics include Data Mining Architecture; Data Preprocessing; Mining Association Rules; Classification; Clustering; On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP); Data Mining Systems and Languages; Advanced Data Mining (Web, Spatial, and Temporal data).