Spring 2009 Special Topics Course CS 549 on Information-Based Systems

         MWF 17:00-1750 KEC 1003
         
         Instructor: Toshimi Minoura

We envision that applications that integrate
content management (CM), Web-mapping, and social networking (SN)
features will become important. In particular, we will study
the following techniques required for such applications
and implement some of them.

1. Google Maps API and jQuery. We also cover
   advanced JavaScript features utilized by them.

2. Access-control mechanisms required for social networking,
   such as groups, friends, and record-based access control.

3. Server-side support of geographical data.

4. Creating a user-participatory Web-based GIS/database application
   by using Drupal and third-party Drupal modules.

5. Automatic generation of Drupal modules.
 
The software tools and programming languages used in this course include the
following: PostgreSQL (object-relational database management system), PHP (Web
scripting language), JavaScript, jQuery, PostGIS (geospatial data server),
Google Maps API, JSON, and Drupal.