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FEUP MESG - Services Engineering and Management

Information Systems I

Objectives, Skills and Learning Outcomes

Main Aims
The main aim of this course unit is to train students to design adequate information systems which fulfil users’ needs and the objectives of organisations, always taking into account the short, medium and long term.

Other Aims
1. To train students to use identification techniques of critical factors of success, activities modeling and business processes.
2. To train students to use conceptual modeling techniques of information, particularly object classes.
3. To train students to use user interface modeling techniques.
4. To train students to use a design methodology of computer technology.
5. To train students to use the available computer tools on Database Management Systems (DBMS) for Information Systems prototyping.
6. To train students to use relational modeling techniques.

Program

1. DESIGN OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS:
Introduction to processes of analysis and modeling of systems and organisations; Intorduction to the design of an information system

2. USER INTERFACE MODELING:
Introduction to user interface modeling; Introduction to OAI model, forms of specification and prototyping tools; Recommendations, principles and rules to design interfaces; Main models of interface: menus, forms, dialogue boxes and direct manipulation; User interface modeling: problems

3. CONCEPTUAL MODELING OF CLASSES: static modelling of classes; object, attributes and methods classes; connections, associations and simple aggregations; generalisations and simple inheritance; Mapping between class model and relational model

4. DATABASE DESIGN:
Introduction to DBMS- Database Management Systems; Relational systems and SQL language; Database normalisation; Other DBMS models

5. CONCLUSIONS AND FINAL REFERENCES

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