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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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Advanced Database Management

Topics:

Advanced data modeling approaches, transaction and security management, concurrency control, OLAP and data mining issues, datawarehousing query optimization, multidimensional and object-oriented databases, distributed database management
 

Project:

Development and Implementation of a software solution containing an Oracle database with approximately 25 tables (including sample data), a Java Applet (ca. 2700 LOC), ASP and JSP pages, 50 pages paper about data mining

International Operations and Information Technology

Topics:

Management of operations across national boundaries, implementation of best practices and achieving competitive advantages  in a global environment, various case studies

Project: Analysis of IKEA's strategy for implementing global operations

Network and Telecommunications Business

Topics:

Benefits, costs and security issues of network components, network design and implementation, network technologies and applications

Project:

            Comparison of WAP and I-mode

Information Systems Development

Topics:

Reviewing object-oriented analysis and design with UML, object-oriented pattern identification, software component specification, concept maps for each topic discussed in class, term paper comparing the component technology approaches of OMG, Sun and Microsoft

Project: