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Blacksburg
The town
Virginia Tech
 

Halle
The city
Martin-Luther-University
 

Trip Thanksgiving 2002
Introduction
Boston
Niagara Falls
Toronto

Debate of MIS
Encryption debate

OR Seminar
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Some useful things
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Database Management Systems

Topics:

History of Databases, Dependency, Integrity, Normalization, ER-Diagram Modeling,  Distributed Database Management, Data Recovery, Concurrency Control,  Data Warehouse, SQL, Database Life Cycle
 

Project:

Development of an Oracle database with approximately 15 tables, including sample data, reports, analysis part with ER-Modeling and design of an User Interface

Object Oriented Application Development with Java

Topics:

Three-Tier-Design, UML, Design and Implementation of GUI, Problem Domain Classes and Data Access Classes

Project:

Analysis (Use Cases, Class Diagram), Design and Implementation of a Business Problem Description, using an Oracle database (ca.10 Tables) and Java Swing in a standalone application (result: more than 5600 LOC plus Tester Classes)

Management of Information Systems

Topics:

Organizations, Management and the Networked Enterprise; Information Technology Infrastructure, Management and Organizational Support Systems for the Digital Firm; Building Information Systems in the Digital Firm, Case Studies, Debates, Design of a Personal Homepage, Design of a Web Shop

Project:

Encryption Debate

Database Systems and System Analysis

Topics:

ER-Modeling, Normalization, SQL, Use Case Specification, Class Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Implementaion of ER-Models, Milestone Presentations

Project:

Analysis and Design of Business Problem Description, divided in 4 Milestones, including an Oracle database and ca. 400 pages with ER-Diagram, Relational Model, Class Diagram for GUI, Problem Domain and Data Access Classes, Collaboration Diagrams, Use Case Specifications, DDL and DML, SQL reports and queries, sample data for ca. 45 tables