17631 - Advanced Information Systems

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Stefano Rizzi
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/05
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Computer Science and Information Technology (cod. 8030)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Computer Science and Engineering (cod. 8614)

Learning outcomes

After the course, the student is skilled in business intelligence architectures and functionalities. In particular, the student is capable of designing and administrating enterprise data warehouses.

Course contents

  1. Business intelligence:
  • the role of BI in the corporate information system;
  • data warehousing;
  • data mining;
  • what-if analysis;
  • Business Performance Management.
  • Data Warehousing:
    • architectures;
    • techniques for data analysis;
    • lifecycle:
      • data source analysis;
      • requirement analysis;
      • conceptual design;
      • workload and data volume;
      • logical design;
      • design of loading procedures;
      • physical design.

    Readings/Bibliography

    • Slides.
    • M. Golfarelli, Stefano Rizzi. Data Warehouse Design: Modern principles and methodologies. McGraw-Hill, 2009.
    Recommended readings:
    • M. Berry, G. Linoff. Data mining techniques for marketing, sales, and customer support. John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
    • B. Devlin. Data warehouse: from architecture to implementation. Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997.
    • W.H. Inmon. Building the data warehouse. John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
    • M. Jarke, M. Lenzerini, Y. Vassiliou, P. Vassiliadis. Fundamentals of data warehouse. Springer, 2000.
    • R. Kimball, L. Reeves, M. Ross, W. Thornthwaite. The data warehouse lifecycle toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
    • I. Witten, E. Frank. Data mining. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.

    Teaching methods

    • Lessons and exercises in the classroom
    • Seminars from enterprise consultants
    • Practice in the laboratory on widespread data warehousing tools

    Assessment methods

    Written examination on design techniques.

    Teaching tools

    Downloadable didactic material.

    Office hours

    See the website of Stefano Rizzi