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1~934 Real Time Systems
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures and
tutorials
Assessment: individual essay, individual
programming assignment, team maintenance
exercise, and a final examination
A unit in the software engineering cluster of the Master of
lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To study contemporary developments in real-time software
and systems.
"Subject description
Models of concurrent programming: real-time programming:
programming distributed systems; development
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2 IT944 Advanced Database Technology
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12.5 credit points
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A unit in the software enginering cluster of the Master of
lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To provide an understanding, through theory and practice, of
some advanced topics in database management systems
with a focus on object-oriented technology.
Subject description
Topics covered will be selected from transaction
management, distributed databases, query optimisation,
performance analysis, advanced data modelling, database
security, and object-oriented databases. About 50% of the
course will be associated with object-oriented technology.
Practical work will include work with some of: Oracle
RDBMS (probably HP Unix). Objectstore OODBMS (Borland
C+ + with Microsoft Windows), Versant (C andlor C+ +
probably with Sun4 Unix) and 3GL program development
using C (or C+ +) and the Clndex database development
package (any platform). We make no assumptions about
prior experience with C or C+ +, but students will be
expected to be proficient in programming, data structures
and have some basic database knowledge.
Textbooks
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IT954 lnformation Systems Requirements
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials
and seminars
Assessment: assignment and project work
A unit in the automated systems development cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To develop an appreciation of the information systems
requirements of organisations; to introduce a range of
approaches to requirements analysis and specification; to
demonstrate the role of Computer-Aided Software
Engineering (CASE) software in analysis, planning and
specification.
Subject description
Organisations and information technology; types of systems;
information srjtems strategies; analysis methods; reverse
engineering, design recovery; systems planning; specification
techniques; automated support for requirements analysis.
Textbooks
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IT964 Resources for lnformation Systems
Development
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials
and seminars
Assessment: assignment and project work
A unit in the Automated Systems Development cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To develop an appreciation of the human and organisational
aspects of information systems development; to introduce
techniques for the effective utilisation and management of
information technology resources.
Subject description
Trends in information technology; impact of information
technology on people and organisations; management of
the information systems function; estimation methods for
information systems development: evaluating the
effectiveness of information systems.
Textbooks
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IT974 Systems Strategies
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials
and seminars
Assessment: assignment and project work
A unit in the automated systems development cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To develop awareness of a range of approaches to meeting
the information systems requirements of organisations; to
study the influence of automated development methods on
the systems development process.
Subject description
Architecture of information systems: standard solutions;
packages and templates; application re-use; evolutionary
development of information systems; reverse engineering;
system integration.
Textbooks
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IT984 automated Development Methods
12.5 credit points
NO. of hours per week: two hours
Instruction: a combination of lectures, tutorials
and seminars
Assessment: project work
A unit in the automated systems development cluster of the
Master of lnformation Technology.
Subject aims
To introduce methods for designing information systems; to
express designs in forms suitable for automated
development; to be able to forecast the performance of an
information system.