Selected Topics of Information Systems

• 39 hrs lectures

To obtain an overview of the object-oriented persistent systems with th ability to present in their usage and the theoretical research.

To obtain an overview in the systems, which combine object-oriented orientation with the persistent data storage. To focus to object-oriented database systems and their applications.

There are no prerequisites

• Catell, R.G.G.: The Object Database Standard: ODMG - 93, Release 1.1, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers 1994 , San Francisco, p. 176
• Coad, P., Yourdon, E.: Object-Oriented Analysis, Yourdon Press, Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey 1991.

• Jacobson, I.: Object-Oriented Software Engineering - A Use case Driven Approach, Addison Wesley, ACM Press 1992, p.524
• Ellis, M.,A., Stroustrup,B.: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, Addison - Wesley Publishing Company 1992, p.453
• Hudhes, J.,G.: Object-Oriented Databases, Prentice Hall 1991, p. 280
• Gray, M.D.P., Kulkarni, K.G., Paton, N.W.: Object-Oriented Databases - A Semantic Data Model Approach, Prentice Hall 1992, p. 237

• The development of the programming methods toward to object-oriented paradigma.
• Basic features of object-oriented model in classic programming languages.
• Implementation model in the classic programming languages.
• Expanding of object-oriented model to persistent systems.
• Object-oriented database systems.
• The comparison between object-oriented and the relational model.
• An overview of the present object-oriented database systems, O2, ODMG, G2.
• Modern features of object-oriented database systems, roles, multitypes objects.
• Collections and relatiships.
• Implementation models of object-oriented persistent systems.
• Distributed object processing.
• CORBA, COM.
• Presentation models of object-oriented database systems.

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

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