Elements and types of information systems for management, information flow within an organization, using information technology for improving of quality, productivity and competitive advantage of organization, electronic business, development of organization information systems, planning, evaluation, and cost-benefit analysis of information systems. Impacts of information technology to individual, organization, and societies. Ethics, laws and national policies concerning information technology.
Computer system organization, processing unit, memory unit, input and output unit, multiprocessing systems, virtual machines, operating systems and software technology, network topology and addressing, routing, MPLS, switching and virtual LAN, wireless networking, network security, network planning and implementation, network technology trends.
Computer system organization. Processing unit. Memory unit. Input/output unit. Analytical methods for computer system performance assessment and capacity planning. Operating system and computer technology. Technology trends and limits.
Installation of modern operating systems. Disks and file systems. Processes. Command-line interface and scripting. User and group management. Networking subsystem. Printing subsystem. System services. Virtualization. Backing up and restoring data.
Standard frameworks and methodologies to model and manage information system development processes. Software process improvement. Quality assurance in information system development life cycle. Metric measurement and evaluation. Supporting tools for information system development processes.
Enterprise system integration: life cycle, methodologies, system development strategies, approaches for modeling. Integration process of planning and managing major business activities by client/server system architecture in real time. Process chain diagram. Data control. Activities and operation control. Management of enterprise resource planning project.
Enterprise system integration: life cycle, methodologies, system development strategies, approaches for modeling. Integration process of planning and managing major business activities by client/server system architecture in real time. Process chain diagram. Data control. Activities and operation control. Management of enterprise resource planning project.
Information management and database systems. Representing Information with data models. Improving the quality of relational database design. Structured query language. Database application program and interaction on the WWW. Database connectivity in multi-tier client-server systems. Management of performance, reliability, and security of database management system software. Object-oriented and distributed database systems.
Architectures and elements of data warehouse systems. Data warehouse system development methodology. Business content and subject area analysis. Data warehouse design and implementation. Data acquisition design. Application of data warehousing for business intelligence.
Hardware and software of big data infrastructure, big data sources and types. Programming on distributed platform, file system for large data analysis, storage and its access using SQL-like and No-SQL-like tools, data analysis and prediction techniques using machine learning and data mining, tools for structure and unstructured analysis for batch and real-time mode. Case study.
Social media structure and modeling, social network properties, methods for link analysis, network community detection, user behavior characterization, information diffusion, behavior cascade and social influence, link prediction and network inference, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, applications for social sciences and economics.
Components of business intelligence. Executive support system. Decision support system development processes. Data warehousing and mining for business intelligence. Integration of business intelligence and decision support system. Case studies.
Principles of knowledge management. Knowledge representation. Organizational knowledge requirement analysis. Knowledge management system analysis, design and development. Knowledge management system deployment and maintenance.
Concepts and methods of needs assessment of information system. User-centered system design. Analysis of user behavior, task, technical infrastructure, process, and existing information systems in an organization. Sufficient information technology resource management for organization. The use of information system for coordination and communication within organization. Evaluation and justification for information technology investment.
Workgroup information systems. Workgroup computing and groupware. System methodology, business process, data and workflow automation. Document image processing technology. Analysis, design and development of workflow automation and document imaging systems.
Impact of computer-based information systems in organization. Business analysis. Critical success factors. Adaptation and radical re-engineering of business processes for the effectiveness of information systems. Re-engineering process. Process re-engineering with object oriented technology. Human factors. Business network redesign and business scope redefinition with supportive information systems.
Manufacturing information system structure design. Logistic elements in manufacturing industry. Supply chain management. Production planning. Production scheduling management. Inventory management. Modeling system development of information sharing among logistic elements. Enterprise resources planning software tools. Introduction of manufacturing information system of domestic prominent industries.
International and national laws concerning to software licenses, intellectual properties, electronic commerce, digital signatures and computer-related crime. Information technology governance standard. Information technology control to meet standard practice.
Information quality concepts, assessment, and problems in organizational information systems. Measurement, analysis, and improvement of information quality. Information quality in management policies and strategies.
Information quality concepts, assessment, and problems in organizational information systems. Measurement, analysis, and improvement of information quality. Information quality in management policies and strategies.
Computer-based geographical information systems (GIS) represented in the form of spatial symbols. The methods of spatial data storage in computer systems. Database management systems for geographical information handling. The connection of database systems and geographical map images. Hardware and software technologies for manipulating, displaying and techniques to facilitate GIS analysis. Examples of GIS applications and utilization.
Importance and functions of information system security. Security of hardware, software, data, business process, and personnel. Architecture, policy, and infrastructure of information system security. Information exchange and ownership. Access control. Information system security techniques and standards.
Data, information and knowledge. Cognition and visual perception. Multi-dimensional spaces for information representation. Tree, network, and graph structures. Interaction styles. Searching and queries. Collaborative environments for visualization and knowledge management. Evaluation of information visualization tools. Software visualization.
Research principles and methods in information technology, problem analysis for research topic identification, data collecting for research planning, identification of samples and techniques. Research analysis, result explanation and discussion, report writing, presentation and preparation for journal publication.