This course has been discontinued.
Last planned examination: Spring 2015
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Previously, business operations of most large enterprises were supported by a number of isolated IT systems performing diverse specific tasks, from real-time process control to administrative functionality such as payroll and billing. In order to better achieve business goals, these systems have in recent years been extended, and more importantly, integrated into a company-wide system in its own right, the enterprise IT system. Due to its history, this system is composed of a considerable number of heterogeneous components interacting by means of equally diverse connectors. To enable rational evolution and design, where the business’s requirements are transformed into technically and economically beneficial IT systems, holistic enterprise architecture models of the system are a necessity.
The purpose of this course is to increase the students’ understanding of and ability for developing and using models that is employed for designing and managing cost-effective industrial IT-systems. i.e. information and control systems for businesses such as the power-, process-, telecommunication-, and manufacturing industries
Course offering missing
Course offering missing for current semester as well as for previous and coming semestersContent and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course consists of, and is examined by, five assignments with the following preliminary content, the final assignments will be presented at the beginning of the course:
- General modeling – The student should, given a previously well known area, create a modeling language that can be used to describe the area.
- Adaptation of modeling language – The student should, given the entities of a modeling language, identify and describe plausible relations between the entities.
- Views – The student should, given a enterprise architecture framework and a modeling language, identify which entities of the language that is relevant in different parts of the framework.
- Refinement of modeling language – The student should, given entities in a modeling language, describe instances of these entities.
- Enterprise architecture modeling – the student should model the complete IT support for a specific organization.
Lectures will be given in order to introduce the students to the assignments and the topic in general. The assignments will be presented in the seminars and handed in as written reports.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this course the participants should be able to:
- Describe and explain components of an IT-system.
- Describe and explain different types of IT-systems that organizations utilize for support of their business.
- Choose among and apply existing IT-system modeling languages.
- Create new IT-system modeling languages.
- Describe and explain how organizations can use IT-systems in a rational and cost efficient manner.
Course Disposition
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Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
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Recommended prerequisites
EH2710 / EH2010 or equivalent course in management of projects
Knowledge from the following areas are beneficial: object oriented programming, computer communications and computer networks, software engineering.
Equipment
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Literature
Is finally announced at course start. E.g. Lankhorst et al., Enterprise Architecture at Work: Modeling, Communication, and Analysis, Springer, 2005.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INL1 - Assignment, 1,5 hp, betygsskala: P, F
- INL2 - Assignment, 3,0 hp, betygsskala: P, F
- KON1 - Control Test, 1,5 hp, betygsskala: P, F
- LAB1 - Laboratory Work, 0,8 hp, betygsskala: P, F
- SEM1 - Lecture, 0,7 hp, betygsskala: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
Approved Design Exercises (INL1 + INL2 + INL3 + INL4 + INL5), seminar attendance (SEM1).
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course web
Further information about the course can be found on the Course web at the link below. Information on the Course web will later be moved to this site.
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Main field of study
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Education cycle
Second cycle
Add-on studies
EH2040 Industrial Information Systems, Systems Engineering, 7,5 credits,
EH2050 Industrial Information Systems, Case Study, 7,5 credits.
Contact
Markus Buschle, EH2020@ics.kth.se
Supplementary information
Replaced by EH2770