It is assumed that individuals taking this focus area will have the appropriate academic and business/industrial/STEM background. Those people not having the needed background will be responsible for taking necessary pre- requisite courses, which will not count to- ward the minimum classroom hours required for the Ph.D. degree. Students are expected to have a working knowledge of statistics and a combination of information technology and computer science courses.
coMPuteR Science 546 (cPSc 546)
Services Oriented Architecture
This course covers Service-Oriented Architec- tures as well as associated technologies such as XML processing, Web Services and Ajax. SOA is an approach to building a set of web services such that larger applications are ex- posed as smaller service modules (web ser- vices) that also allow integration via service composition mechanisms to build newer, use- ful larger applications. SOA is an evolution of distributed object computing and utilizes the messaging design pattern between web ser- vices. An application’s business logic (middle- tier), or data related functions are modularized and presented as services for consumer/client applications. These services in a proper SOA design are loosely coupled in nature; i.e., the service interface is independent of the imple- mentation. Application developers can build newer applications by composing one or more services without knowing the services’ underlying implementations. This course not only presents the concepts behind proper SOAs, but also covers the technologies such as WCF (based on latest WS-* specifications) needed to practically build such architectures.
3 semester hours
coMPuteR Science 551 (cPSc 551)
Advanced Database Design
This course introduces database design with an emphasis on systems (as opposed to ap- plications). Topics include relational model, SQL, database normalization techniques, data storage and indexing, query evaluation and optimization, physical database design, and transaction management.
3 semester hours
coMPuteR Science 555 (cPSc 555)
Web-based Application Development
This course provides an introduction to funda- mental issues in designing a web-based appli- cation. Review of the web technologies such as HTML, VBScript, DHTML, Java, XML and server-side technologies using Active Server Pages (ASP), CGI and Java Server Pages (JSP). Design issues include the creation of tiered and scalable applications by the use of COM+ components involving Microsoft Transaction Server and the Java Beans. Different projects are assigned to create dynamic, database- driven E-Commerce solutions involving, order tracking systems, inventory systems, inventory management, advertising management, creat- ing score reports, personalizing the shopping
experience and secure credit card transac- tions. Wireless E-Commerce applications and developing business-to-business applications using XML, SOAP and Biztalk Servers.
3 semester hours
coMPuteR Science 556(cPSc 556)
Data Mining
This course is dealing with basic concepts, tasks, methods, and techniques in data min- ing. The focus is on various data mining prob- lems and their solutions, such as association rule, classification, and clustering analysis. Students will learn various techniques for data mining, and apply the techniques to solve data mining problems. The following topics will be discussed in this course Introduction of Data Mining, Mining Frequent Patterns, As- sociations, and Correlations, Classification and Prediction, Cluster Analysis, Mining Stream, Time-Series, and Sequence Data, Graph Min- ing, Mining Spatial, Multimedia, Text and Web Data and Applications and Trends in Data Mining.
3 semester hours
coMPuteR Science 562 (cPSc / cPeg 562)
Information Assurance
This course covers both the principles and practice of information assurance. The topics include law and ethics of information security, intrusion detection, firewall & trusted comput- ing, trust management, authentication & bio- metrics, authorization and access control, web security, web service security, privacy issues, principles & practices of IT auditing, informa- tion systems security professional certification (CISSP). The basic issues to be addressed by information assurance are explored through a tutorial and survey of law and ethics at the very beginning of the course. Then, the de- tailed practice of information assurance is ex- plored via practical aspects as well as applica- tions that have been used and implemented nowadays.
3 semester hours
coMPuteR Science 571 (cPSc / cPeg 571)
Internet Computing
This course discusses the principles and prac- tices of computing problems over the Inter- net. This course focuses on the Internet as a domain for sharing information and resources with cloud systems. The topics include distrib- uted systems, World Wide Web, the browser- cloud computing model, cloud systems, in- formation retrieval and search technologies,
multi-agent systems, web usage mining and personalization, social networks, peer-to-peer technologies, and semantic webs. Founda- tions of Internet computing and how to use modern technological frameworks to develop various Internet-based applications are cov- ered by this course. Application areas include finance and e-business, government services, scientific computing, bioinformatics, collabor- ative computing, multimedia applications, and file-sharing systems. This course is not intend- ed to be a course on web site development.
3 semester hours
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 520 (tcMg 520)
Information Systems Development and Design.
This course focuses on the analysis, design, and development of business systems. Stu- dents will learn a variety of development models and tools available for systems devel- opment, deployment and management. The role of all systems constituents is addressed through discussion of the specification, de- cision-making, and review of designs, docu- mentation, program specifications, and sys- tem improvement. Course level and content is suitable for managerial as well as the more technically oriented.
3 semester hours
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 521(tcMg 521/ itkM 505)
Information Systems and Knowledge Management
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the students with some of the organizational and management issues surrounding the emer- gence of information and knowledge as key factors in developing and maintaining a com- petitive advantage for firms. The course is organized around two ideas, 1) knowledge as a manageable asset, and 2) why people in organizations sometimes don’t use what they know. A basic assumption of the class is that organizations are complex adaptive systems operating in highly competitive, information and knowledge rich environments.
3 semester credits
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 533 (tcMg 533)
Information Technology Strategy and Governance
This course covers information technology plans, strategy, business/IT alignment, gov- ernance, environmental, ethical, economic, regulatory, compliance and technical issues and trends with a focus on planning, organiz- ing, justifying, controlling, implementing and
integrating concepts and real world experi- ences. It discusses business and IT balanced scorecards, metrics and key performance in- dicators. Current and emerging best business and technology strategy and governance best practice frameworks such as COBIT, CMMI, PMBOK, Kano, ITIM, Prince2, ITIL, select ISO standards and others will be covered with em- phasis on lessons learned, critical success fac- tors and pragmatic solutions. Individual and team projects and case studies are integrated into the course.
3 semester hours
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 540 (tcMg / Meeg 540)
Simulation and Modeling
The purpose of this course is to provide an in depth coverage of the use of simulation and modeling as an analysis tool for the study of production and distribution processes. The course aims to develop a sense of critical thinking, learning and problem solving. Top- ics include: problem formulation, data collec- tion and analysis, random variable generation, and statistical analysis of output. Utilizes a ma- jor simulation language, SIMAN.
3 semester hours
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 549 (tcMg 549/ MgMt 548)
Business Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
Decision Support Systems (DSS) are interac- tive computer based systems that help deci- sion makers understand and use data, models, and other analytical tools to evaluate their op- tions. The course will focus on several aspects of DSS. Topics covered include Data-Driven systems, Model-Driven systems and Commu- nications-Driven systems that help groups solve problems and Knowledge-Driven sys- tems, and Document-Driven systems (expert systems). This course will enhance the stu- dent’s ability to understand the design and development of DSS with Web technology. Prerequisites: Completion of all required In- formation Technology and Knowledge Man- agement required concentration courses or concurrent registration in final required con- centration courses.
3 semester credits
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 568 (tcMg 568/ cPSc 568)
Foundation of Information Analytics
This course will introduce the foundation of Informatics. It will review how information sciences and computer technology can be applied to enhance research and practice in
management and technology. The basic prin- ciples of informatics that govern communica- tion systems, information retrieval, data min- ing, data warehousing support and evidence based business and technology decision sup- port will be explored. Various Informatics tools will be covered.
3 semester hours
tecHnologY MAnAgeMent 571 (tcMg 571/MgMt 571)
Foundations of Service Management and Engineering
This course integrates topics from economics, engineering, law, technology and organiza- tional theory to deal with how firms change over time to become more service oriented or become service business and the mechanisms and tools by which they seek innovation and competitive advantage in the service sector. The services life cycle is reviewed. In addition, enabling technologies and how different dis- ciplines help to answer questions about how business services combine, evolve, standard- ize and mature are covered.
3 semester hours