This course intends to present tools and methodology for decision supporting information systems designing and management. The main topics include: Conceptual and semantic models, Metadata information systems, Information systems for processes representation, The relational approach for space and temporal data representation
To acquire capacities and competencies in complex problems analysis and representation
Prerequisites
statistics
Teaching Methods
taught class, distance and e-learning lessons, laboratories
Further information
e-learning
Type of Assessment
Discussion of a short paper, oral test
Course program
• from language to information models
• temporal reasoning
• the spacial dimension of decision supporting information systems
• the role of ontologies in decision supporting information systems
• information models for processes representation
• beyond the relational approach: conceptual models for aggregated data
• how to model information systems in support of politics evaluation