2009 Winter Quarter Courses

Scheduled CBMI related courses for Winter Quarter 2009 include:

• CS295 - XML Data Management
  
  This special topics class will cover XML and related technologies from a data management perspective. Part 1 of the course will cover the basics, including XML itself, DTDs, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, and Web services. In Part 2 we will turn our attention to XQuery, the XML query language from the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) that lies at the heart of most XML data management approaches and technologies. In addition to XQuery 1.0, we will examine various XQuery extensions that enhance XQuery with support for aggregation, updates, scripting, and full-text searching. We will also cover SQL/XML, a set of SQL extensions for publishing and querying XML data. Part 3 of the course will cover different kinds of industrial systems related to XML data management, including XML support in relational database systems, XML-based data integration middleware, and the role of XML and XQuery in ESBs and business process management systems. Finally, Part 4 will look under the hood of these systems, covering topics including XML storage and indexing (both relational and native) and XML query processing (both for native and federated systems).
  
  Schedule: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:30-5:50pm
  Location: ICS1 - Room 249
  Instuctor: Michael Carey
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• IN4MATX 295 - Special Topics in Informatics: HCI Issues in Healthcare
  
  The course will cover a variety of HCI related issues, both clinical oriented, such as design and implementation of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, HCI and medical errors, issues about mobilized clinical documentation systems, and patient oriented such as Personal Health Records (PHR), disease management for patient who have chronic diseases etc. Many of the topics overlap with CSCW, ubiquitous computing and mobile computing studies. Class will be generally seminar/discussion based, but it can be tailored to cover specific interests or even allow small projects. There will be opportunities to experience or carry out pilot studies in hospitals either with or without EMR system as well as in other clinics.
  
  Schedule: Monday, 4:00-6:50pm
  Location: TBA
  Instuctor: Yunan Chen
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• CS284B Probabilistic Modeling of Biological Data
  
  A unified Bayesian probabilistic framework for modeling and mining biological data. Applications range from sequence (DNA, RNA, proteins) to gene expression data. Graphical models, Markov models, stochastic grammars, structure prediction, gene finding, evolution, DNA arrays, single- and multiple-gene analysis.
  
  Schedule: TBA
  Location: TBA
  Instuctor: TBA
  Syllabus