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PA116 Domain Understanding and Modeling

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2009

Extent and Intensity

2/2. 4 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Alternate Types of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Zdenko Staníček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vladimír Dosoudil (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Petra Komárková (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Pavel Minařík (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Zdeněk Vrbka (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marek Winkler (seminar tutor)

Supervisor

prof. RNDr. Václav Matyáš, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications - Faculty of Informatics

Timetable

Wed 18:00–19:50 D2

Timetable of Seminar Groups:

PA116/01 Mon 18:00–19:50 B204, V. Dosoudil
PA116/02 Wed 8:00–9:50 B410, M. Winkler
PA116/03 Thu 18:00–19:50 B411, P. Komárková
PA116/04 Fri 8:00–9:50 C525, P. Minařík
PA116/05 Thu 16:00–17:50 C511, P. Komárková

Prerequisites

(! PV116 Data Modelling II && PB114 Data Modelling I ) || SOUHLAS
The knowledge of introductory database and data modeling courses are required.
It is recommended to enrol this course after succesful pass in PB114 Data Modeling I. For those who didn't pass their bachelor degree at FI MU it is possible to enrol this course after consultation and evaluation by the lecturer--Zdenko Stanicek.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

Systematic approach to understanding of the domain in which a service system will operate based on conceptual modeling. Semantics modeling of services underlying structures.
At the end of this course students should be able to:
understand the step-by-step service system modeling, management, and evaluation;
use analytical patterns in data modeling and perform component consolidation;
manage knowledge and information;
understand conceptual systems, higher-order objects, and their role in service systems design;
work with abstract data types and use OOP and connection oriented paradigm;
design conceptual and behavioral models of a given domain.

Syllabus

Systematic approach to understanding of the domain in which a service system will operate based on conceptual modeling. Semantics modeling of services underlying structures.
Service systems and how to understand its domain
Transparent intensional logic and natural language analysis
Information, knowledge and their modeling
Concepts and objects, high order objects
HIT-attributes, definability, decomposability. Semantics and information capability
Modeling, modeling tools, modeling capability, universality principle, self-reference, MENTION-USE principle
OO approach, data abstractions, OO software construction and OO analysis. Issues in OO analysis
Connection oriented paradigm (COP). Service system domain understanding and modeling using COP approach.

Literature

Duzi, Marie: Logical Foundations of Conceptual and Database Modelling. http://www.cs.vsb.cz/duzi/
Stanicek, Zdenko: SSME* - Service Systems, Modeling, Execution, Education. To appear 2009
Fowler, M. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997

Teaching methods

lectures, class discussion, group projects, presentations homeworks

Assessment methods

A seminar work is required to the exam consisting in conceptual description of a choosen domain of service system in both, a structure and a behavior dimensions. The exam can consist from written part and discussion on learned topics with respect to seminar work.

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