All of these articles should be available from the ISU Library on the reserve list.
| Topic | In-Class Reading Date | Title | Author | Journal |
| Data Modeling | 1-Feb | Evolution of data modeling for databases | Shamkant B. Navathe | Communications of the ACM |
| Ref.Only | A relational model of data for large shared data banks | E. F. Codd | Communications of the ACM | |
| Normalization | Ref.Only | Database design: composing fully normalized tables from a rigorous dependency diagram | Henry C. Smith | Communications of the ACM |
| SQL | 22-Feb | WEBVIEW: an SQL extension for joining corporate data to data derived from the web | Charles A. Wood & Terence T. Ow | Communications of the ACM |
| GIS | 22-Mar | Designing mobile commerce applications | Peter Tarasewich | Communications of the ACM |
| Ref.Only | Data models in geographic information systems | Shashi Shekhar et al. | ||
| 22-Mar | Localization: The Revolution in Consumer Markets | Darrell K. Rigby, Vijay Vishwanath | Harvard Business Review | |
| Data Warehouses | Ref.Only | Modeling strategies and alternatives for data warehousing projects | Nenad Jukic | Communications of the ACM |
| 29-Mar | A comparison of data warehousing methodologies | Arun Sen & Atish P. Sinha | Communications of the ACM | |
| Data Mining | Ref.Only | Data mining: on the trail to marketing gold | Shawn Thelen, Sandra Mottner, Barry Berman | Business Horizons |
| 5-Apr | Diamonds in the data mine | Gary W. Loveman | Harvard Business Review | |
| Knowledge Management | Cancelled | Knowledge Management in the Wild | Michael Weeks | Business Horizons |
| Ref.Only | Technology is not enough: improving performance by building organizational memory | Rob Cross and Lloyd Baird | Sloan Management Review | |
For those cases with dates next to them, please prepare a synopsis of the case for the night of class. The outline for this synopsis is available here.