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 temporaldata representation,
To acquire capacities and competencies in complex problems analysis and representation.
Competencies in decision supporting information systems management , temporal data bases and datawarehouse designing techniques.
To acquire skills in metadata handling and new sources
Teaching Methods
taught class, distance and e-learning lessons, laboratories
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