[aus.ai] Intelligent Information Systems Course - taught by Robert Meersman

johnz@latcs1.lat.oz.au (John Zeleznikow) (06/27/91)

Organization:Database Research Laboratory, Applied computing Research Institute, La Trobe Uni, Australia
Sender: johnz@latcs1.lat.oz.au (John Zeleznikow)
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
Keywords:Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Daa Modelling
Distribution: aus
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 06:07:16 GMT
Summary:Advanced Course on Intelligent Information Systems 

INTELLIGENT INFORMATION MODELLING COURSE/WORKSHOP

Lecturer:	Professor Robert Meersman, Tilburg University, Netherlands

Venue:		 Glenn Lecture Theatre, La Trobe University

Time:		9a.m. - 2p.m. Mondays 1,8,15,22,29 July 1991

This course will involve designing and constructing modern information systems.
It will include Entity-Relationship. NIAM and Binary Relation Models. There will
be an extensive discussion of object-oriented databases and intelligent 
information systems, as well as CASE tools.

The course will consist of lectures, tutorials, laboratories and supervised
practical work. 

Professor Meersman is the director of INFOLAB, Tilburg University Netherlands.
He is chairman of IFIP WG2.6 (on databases) and is currently writing a book on 
Advanced Information Modelling Techniques.

Professor Meersman will be supported by Dr. John Zeleznikow and his team at the
Database Research Laboratory at La Trobe University. Dr. Zeleznikow is an 
associate editor of the Australian Computer Journal, Tutorial Chairman of
VLDB90, and General Chairman of an IFIP WG2.6 Conference on Interoperable
Databases.

The fee for the course is $950 ($475 for academic staff and $95 for students
and unemployed people), and includes all use of software and hardware, written 
materials and meals and refreshments.

For further information contact:

Dr. John Zeleznikow
Database Research Laboratory
Applied Computing Research Institute
La Trobe University
Bundoora Victoria 3083 Australia

Phone: 61.3.4791003
FAX:   61.3.4704915

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				SYLLABUS

Day 1.		Introduction to information modelling.
		Pitfalls of normalisation.
		Entity Relationship Model.
		Semantic Data Modelling.

Day 2.		Principles and notation of NIAM (Nijssen Information Analysis
						 Method)
		Binary Modelling.
		Examples of NIAM and Binary Modelling.
		Comparing NIAM and Binary Modelling to Entity Relationship Model.

Day 3.		Mapping NIAM Conceptual Models to Implementation Models e.g. SQL

Day 4.		CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools based on NIAM
		and Extended Entity Relationship Modelling.

Day 5.		Object Oriented Data Modelling
		Replacing NIAM concewptual modelling with object oriented
		modelling.
		Illustration and case studies.