Information Systems (CT 751)

Syllabus

Lectures: 3 Teaching Hours per week

Tutorial: 1 Teaching Hours per week

Course Objectives

To introduce and apply the knowledge of computer based information systems. It also provides the concept to the student in designing and setting up complex information system.

Theory

  1. Information system (3 hours)
    1. Classification and evolution of IS
    2. IS in functional area.
    3. Information system architecture
    4. Qualities of information systems
    5. Managing Information System resources
    6. Balanced Scorecard – case studies
  2. Control, Audit and Security of Information systemn (5 hours)
    1. Control of information system
    2. Audit of information system
    3. Security of information system
    4. Consumer layered security strategy
    5. Enterprise layered security strategy
    6. Extended validation and SSL certificates
    7. Remote access authentication
    8. Content control and policy based encryption
    9. Example of security in e-commerce transaction
  3. Enterprise Management Systems (4 hours)
    1. Enterprise management systems (EMS)
    2. Enterprise Software: ERP/SCM/CRM
    3. Information Management and Technology of Enterprise Software
    4. Role of IS and IT in Enterprise Management
    5. Enterprise engineering, Electronic organism, Loose integration vs. full integration, Process alignment, Frame work to manage integrated change, future trends.
  4. Decision support and Intelligent systems (7 hours)
    1. DSS, operations research models
    2. Group decision support systems
    3. Enterprise and executive decision support systems
    4. Knowledge Management, Knowledge based Expert system
    5. AI, Neural Networks, Virtual reality, Intelligent Agents
    6. Data mining, Data ware Housing, OLAP, OLTP
    7. Anomaly and fraud detection
  5. Planning for IS (3 hours)
    1. Strategic information system
    2. Tactical information system
    3. Operational information systems
  6. Implementations of Information Systems (7 hours)
    1. Change Management
    2. Critical Success Factors
    3. Next generation Balanced scorecard
  7. Web based information system and navigation (8 hours)
    1. The structure of the web
    2. Link Analysis
    3. Searching the web
    4. Navigating the web
    5. Web uses mining
    6. Collaborative filtering
    7. Recommender systems
    8. Collective intelligence
  8. Scalable and Emerging Information System techniques (8 hours)
    1. Techniques for voluminous data
    2. Cloud computing technologies and their types
    3. MapReduce and Hadoop systems
    4. Data management in the cloud
    5. Information retrieval in the cloud
    6. Link analysis in cloud setup
    7. Case studies of voluminous data environment

Evaluation Scheme

S.N. Chapter Hours Marks Distrubution
1 1 4 8
2 2 8 14
3 3 4 8
4 4 7 12
5 5 3 5
6 6 3 5
7 7 8 14
8 8 8 14
Total   45 hours 80

Practical

Actually this subject has no practical. But The syllabus still mentions the following:

The practical exercise shall include following three types of projects on designing of information system

    1. E-commerce based information system for online transaction processing
    2. web uses mining or collaborative filtering based processing system
    3. scalable and emerging information system
    4. Balanced scorecard, Strategy Map

References

Information  Systems Today  Leonard Jessup and Joseph Valacich, Prentice hall, 2007
Managing With Information System, J.Kanter,  PHI, Latest edition
An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation, M. Levene, Pearson Education,
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer,  Morgan and Claypool, 2010.
The Cloud at Your Service, Jothy Rosenberg and Arthur Mateos, Manning, 2010
Balanced scorecard: Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton
Strategy Maps : Converting   intangible assets into tangible outcomes,Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton
Strategy Focused  organization : Robert S. Kaplan,David P. Norton

Attributions to the Contributors:

Krischal Khanal