SPECIFIC CSE 720 TOPICS (tentative):

Aggregation and OLAP queries in probabilistic databases.

Top-k queries in probabilistic databases.

Provenance and lineage: formal notions and algorithms.

Relational query containment: a survey.

Conditional functional and inclusion dependencies, and their use
in data cleaning.

Distributed query evaluation.

Querying Semantic Web knowledge bases.

Information disclosure in data exchange.

Security views.

Logic-based data extraction.

Keyword and schema-less queries.

Novel applications:
      - declarative networking
      - scalable ganes.