Course details
Information Systems
IIS Acad. year 2006/2007 Winter semester 4 credits
Information system as a special case of a system. Kinds of informarion systems. History of information systems. Management information systems, their desing and development. Special information systems. Technology of information system with relational database system building.
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Language of instruction
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Time span
- 26 hrs lectures
- 13 hrs projects
Department
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
Ability to model especially economic reality in the information system. Ability and knowledge to implement information systems under database technologies.
Learning objectives
To obtain common overview of information system branch. To get basic knowledge of information systems based on the database technology. In more details to get knowledge of management information systems.
Recommended prerequisites
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
There are no prerequisites
Syllabus of lectures
- information and information system, model and its projection, OLTP a OLAP
- conceptual modelling, data definition, basic modeling principles, structure and collection
- proces definition and transaction modeling, sematic restriction definition
- information system as document circulation, document type definition, SGML, XML for document type definition, XML technologie overview, DTD - language for document type definition
- HTML- document type for SGML, XHTML - document type for XML, DOM
- XML - language for structured data description, XPath - the quere language over XML
- clinen part of an information system - client JavaScript introduction
- client part of an information system - JavaScript technology for HTML pages generation
- server part of an information system - PHP introduction, MySQL introduction
- introduction to OLAP
- an example of OLPT information system design - university information system.
Progress assessment
At least half of points obtainable during the semester (tests and project), i.e. 25 points.
Controlled instruction
Mid-term test. Continuous checking of the project solution by the supervisor.