Seminars in Software and Services for the Information Society

(Seminari di Software e Servizi per la Società dell'Informazione)

2012-2013

Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica (Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Informazione)
Master in Computer Engineering (School of Information Engineering)

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

The course is taught in the second semester, and will host two series of seminars, hold at DIAG - via Ariosto 25, Room A7, at 15:45-17:15 & 17:30-19:00, with the following schedule:

Data Intelligence (letures given by Prof. Umberto Nanni)

Monday, March 4, 2013:
Goals, Overview; Business Intelligence architectures

Monday, March 11, 2013:
Multidimensional model & Data Warehouse; MS SQL-Server Analysis Services: basics

Monday, March 25, 2013:
Introduction to Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors

Monday, April 15, 2013:
RFID; Examples; case study

Monday, April 29, 2013:
Notions of Social Networks Analysis (SNA); case study

Monday, May 27, 2013:
Data Mining; Examples; case study

Process Modeling & Management (coordinated by Prof. Massimo Mecella)

Monday, March 18, 2013: Massimo Mecella Introduction to Process Modeling, Business Process, Business Process Management System
Monday, April 8, 2013: Claudio Di Ciccio Formal Approaches to Business Processes through Petri Nets
Monday, April 22, 2013: Massimo Mecella Business Process Modeling Notation (OMG standard)
Monday, May 6, 2013: Alessandro Russo YAWL and Its Supporting Environment
Monday, May 13, 2013: Claudio Di Ciccio Process Mining
Monday, May 20, 2013: Fabio Patrizi Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (ACSI)

Seminars in the past years: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012.

For the students attending the course, the support matherial used in the course is available by email and/or this page.

Office Hours

Check out the Announcement Page

Exam

For those students who attended at least 75% of the lectures, the examination is based on a project.
Awareness of methodologies, technologies, and software tools adopted in the project is - of course - expected.

Projects

For discussing a possible topics for the projects, please contact professor Nanni in office hours, or arrange an appointment by telephone (in office hour, please) or by e-mail.

Requirements and Suggestions

Regardless the topic, the discussion of the project requires:

a report (in english), to be sent in advance by email in pdf format
a live demonstration of the project (scheduled discussion - see above)

Additional presentations (powerpoint, or similar) are NOT required.

As an example (this meas that, yes, a different structure is OK), a typical report, depending on the considered project, might include:

Definition
- a short description of the background and context
- statements about the considered problem, scope, goals
- ...
How
- methodology
- involved technologies and tools
- ...
What
- requirements
- architecture of the developed project (encompassing software tools, data and/or control flows, developed modules or data collections)
- analysis / design
- ...
Output
- a selection of snapshots from the developed matherial
- achieved goals / resulting consideration
- ...

The adoption of design formalism is required, notably in the "what" section: UML diagrams and/or workflows and/or Dimensional Fact Model.

Additional suggestions:

do not ask "how many pages?"
pursue conceptual completeness (e.g.: statements vs. achieved goals)
do not write (or paste) too much: distill the essential contents
do not write (or paste) too much: you are requested to know everything is written in your project
enjoy your project

Discussion

The project can be discussed by arranging an appointment with Prof. Nanni (email, or a telephone call or a visit in office hours) or (according the topic) with Prof. Massimo Mecella.

Umberto Nanni (home page)