CIS 4262 (Winter 2009)

Information Systems Analysis and Design II

 

· General Course Information

· Grading

· Class Policy

· Main Topics

· Lecture Notes

· Projects

· Important Dates

 

General Course Information

 

·        Instructor: Dr. Brahim Medjahed

·        When: Tuesday and Thursday, 01:40pm – 3:30pm.

·        Where: Science Building ELB 173.

·        Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30pm to 5:00pm; Wednesday 3-6pm; or by appointment. If you need an appointment, please send an email at least 24 hours before the requested time.

·        CIS 4262 syllabus.

·        Since we will cover various advanced topics in this class, we do not have a specific textbook to work on.  For each chapter, I will provide documentation relevant to the topics covered in that chapter.

 

Grading

 

·        Project 1: 10%

·        Project 2: 15%

·        Project 3: 25%

·        Midterm: 25%

·        Final Exam: 25%

 

Class Policy

 

·        All students must respect the statement on academic conduct: “The University of Michigan - Dearborn values academic honesty and integrity. Each student has a responsibility to understand, accept, and comply with the university's standards of academic conduct as set forth by the Code of Academic Conduct, as well as policies established by the schools and colleges. Cheating, collusion, misconduct, fabrication, and plagiarism are considered serious offenses. Violations will not be tolerated and may result in penalties up to and including expulsion from the University”.

·        Please read you UMD email regularly for announcements.

·        You are expected to return your assignments at the due date (before midnight). Late assignments (project, homework, etc.) will be penalized 5% off for each late day.

·        If there are mistakes in grading your project or exam, please contact me within a week after the return of your work. The entire work will be graded again and the new grade will replace the original one, whether the new grade is higher or lower than the original grade.

 

Main Topics

 

·        XML

·        DTDs and XML Schema

·        Information Systems and the World Wide Web

·        Semantic Web, Ontology, and RDF

·        Data Warehousing

·        Data Mining

·        Information Retrieval

·        Workflow

 

Lecture Notes (posted on VLT)

 

Readings

 

Since we will cover various advanced topics in this class, we do not have a specific textbook to work on.  For each chapter, I will provide documentation relevant to the topics covered in that chapter.

 

Projects (posted on VLT)

 

All projects are individual.  At the end of the project, each student will have to:

1.     Submit a report describing the design of his/her project.

2.     Present a project demo showing the major features of his/her implementation.

 

Important Dates

 

·        Project 1

1.     Posted: January 20th, 2009

2.     Due: February 10th, 2009

·        Project 2

1.     Posted: February 10th, 2009

2.     Due: March 10th, 2009

·        Project 3

1.     Posted: March 10th, 2009

2.     Due: April 23rd, 2009

·        Midterm Exam: February 26th, 2009 (01:40pm – 3:30pm)

·        Final Exam: Thursday April 30th, 2009 (11:30am – 2:30pm)