News

• Call for tutors for incoming Earmus Mundus students.
• May 31st, 2014. Available results of the second part of the mid-term exam.
• May 20th, 2014. MID-TERM EXAM.

  The second part of the exam will be held (only for those who passed the first part):

  • Friday, May 30th, from 14:00 to 16:00, Room 0.2
• May 20th. Added slides Cloud Computing + Scheduling Part I + Scheduling Part II + Online Scheduling.
• May 5th. Added slides Ch09 + Ch10.
• Apr. 15th, 2014. Available results of the mid-term exam.
• Apr. 6rd, 2014. Added slides ch08.
• Apr. 6rd, 2014. Added slides ch07.
• Apr. 6th, 2014. Added answers to exercises Basics of cryptology: Public key cryptography.
• Apr. 3rd, 2014. MID-TERM EXAM.

  The mid-term exam will be held:

  • Monday, Apr. 14th, from 16:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2
• Apr. 3rd, 2014. Added slides ch06.
• Mar. 30th, 2014. Added slides + exercises on Basics of cryptology: Public key cryptography.
• Mar. 27th, 2014. Added further exercises and answers on Basics of cryptology.
• Mar. 27th, 2014. Added answers to exercises Basics of cryptology.
• Mar. 27th, 2014. Added answers to exercises Ch05.
• Mar. 20th, 2014. Added Exercises on Basics of cryptology: Symmetric cryptography, MAC and hashes.
• Mar. 20th, 2014. Added slides on Basics of cryptology: MAC and hashes.
• Mar. 17th, 2014. Added slides on Basics of cryptology: Symmetric cryptography.
• Mar. 16th, 2014. Added answers to exercises Ch03 + Ch04.
• Mar. 12th, 2014. Added slides + exercises on Basics of cryptology.
• Mar. 10th, 2014. THE TIMETABLE HAS CHANGED.
  • Monday, from 16:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2
  • Friday, from 14:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2

  Today (Mar 10th.) the lecture starts at 16:00

• Mar. 8th, 2014. Added slides + exercises Ch05.
• Mar. 4th, 2014. Please fill the doodle with the time when you are available on Monday and Friday.
• Mar. 4th, 2014. Added slides + exercises Ch04.
• Mar. 4th, 2014. Added answers to exercises Ch01 + Ch02.
• Mar. 1st, 2014. Added slides + exercises Ch03.
• Feb. 27th, 2014. Added slides + exercises Ch02.
• Feb. 25th, 2014. Added slides + exercises Ch01.

Goal and syllabus

It has become nearly impossible to live in today's society and to be not dependent on information systems of one type or another. The goal for students in this course is to learn the fundamentals of Information Systems and Security.

• Introduction to information systems.
• Information Technology infrastructure and Support: business issues, challenges and information technology solutions, Cloud computing, Business transactions in real time.
• Data and network infrastructure: network management.
• Information Systems Security: (Information technology security, crime, Compliance, Continuity. Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risk Exposure. Defense: Information technology Defense.)
• Introduction to cloud computing.
• Algorithmic issues arising in information systems.

Program and lecture notes (Tentative)

• Lecture 1 (Monday Feb. 24th): Presentation of the course

Information technology for management

• Lecture 2 (Monday Feb. 24th): Information systems nowadays.
• Lecture 3 (Friday Feb. 28th): IT infrastructure and support systems.
• Lecture 4 (Monday Mar. 3rd): Data, text, and document management.
• Lecture 5 (Friday Mar. 7th): Network Management and Mobility.
• Lecture 6 (Monday Mar. 10th, Friday Mar. 14th): Information Technology Security, Crime, Compliance, and Continuity.
• Lecture 7 (Friday Mar. 14th): Basics of cryptology.
• Lecture 8 (Monday Mar. 17th, Friday Mar. 21st): Basics of cryptology: Symmetric cryptography.
• Lecture 9 (Friday Mar. 21st): Basics of cryptology: MAC and hashes.
• Lecture 10 (Monday Mar. 24th, Friday Mar. 28th): Basics of cryptology: Public key cryptography.
• Lecture 11 (Monday Mar. 31st): E-Business and E-Commerce.
• Lecture 12 (Friday Apr. 4th): Mobile Computing and Commerce.
• Lecture 13 (Friday Apr. 4th): Web 2.0 and Social Media.
• Lecture 14 (Monday Apr. 28th): Operational Planning and Control Systems.
• Lecture 15 (Monday May 5th): Enterprise Information Systems.
• Lecture 16 (Monday May 12th, Friday May 16th): Cloud Computing.
• Lecture 17 (Friday May 16th): Scheduling Part I.
• Lecture 18 (Monday May 19th): Scheduling Part II.
• Lecture 19 (Monday May 19th): Online Scheduling.

Exercises

• Exercises 1 (Monday Mar. 3rd): Information systems nowadays.
• Exercises 2 (Monday Mar. 3rd): IT infrastructure and support systems.
• Exercises 3 (Friday Mar. 14th): Data, text, and document management.
• Exercises 4 (Friday Mar. 14th): Network Management and Mobility.
• Exercises 5 (Friday Mar. 21st): Information Technology Security, Crime, Compliance, and Continuity.
• Exercises 6 (Friday Mar. 21st, Friday Mar. 28th): Basics of cryptology. --- Addendum.
• Exercises 7 (Friday Mar. 28th): Basics of cryptology: Symmetric cryptography, MAC and hashes.
• Exercises 8 (Friday Apr. 4th): Basics of cryptology: Public key cryptography. --- Solutions.

Textbook

• Information Technology for Management, 8th Edition.
  Efraim Turban, Linda Volonino.
  Wiley, 2011.

Additional instructional material

• A view of cloud computing. PDF (Mandatory)
  Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Andy Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia.
  Commun. ACM 53, 4 (April 2010), 50-58.
• Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing. PDF(Mandatory)
  Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Rean Griffith, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy Katz, Andy Konwinski, Gunho Lee, David Patterson, Ariel Rabkin, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia.
  EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
  Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-28, February 10, 2009.
• Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World (2nd Edition).
  Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner, and Michael Speciner.
  Prentice Hall, 1995.
• Scheduling Algorithms, 5th edition.
  Peter Brucker.
  Springer, 2007.
• The Design of Approximation Algorithms.
  David P. Williamson and David B. Shmoys.
  Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Timetable

Academic Year 2013/2014, Second Semester (from Febuary 24th to June 13th)

• Monday, from 14:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2 from 16:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2
• Friday, from 11:00 to 13:00, Room A 1.1 from 14:00 to 18:00, Room 0.2

Student reception

Monday / Friday

Exams

Final written and oral examination.