Project 1

Master of Science in Electronic Business___________________________________________________________________________

Course Details

Lecture 1.Semester

2.Semester

3.Semester

Language

Formal Methods of Software Engineering

4 h/p (2 SU + 2 P) 5

Credits E

Development of Business Applications

4 h/p(4 SU)5 Credits E

Business Process Analysis, Evaluation and Re-Design BP (AERD)

4 h/p (4 S)

5 Credits

E

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

4 h/p(4 SU)

5 Credits

E

Project 1

4 h/p(4 Project)

5 Credits

E

Foreign Languages

4 h/p(4 SU)

5 Credits

Strategic Management / Consulting

4 h/p (4 SU)

5 Credits

G

Knowledge Management / Data Warehouse

4 h/p(2 SU + 2 S)

5 Credits

G

Human Computer Interaction

3 h/p (2 SU + 1 P)

5 Credits

E

IT-Security

3 h/p (2 SU + 1 P)

5 Credits

G

Project 2

4 h/p(4 Project)

5 Credits

E

Legal Aspects and eMarketing

4 h/p(2 SU + 2 S)

5 Credits

G

Masterthesis 30 Credits

Hours per week 24 h/p 22 h/p

Credits 30 Credits 30 Credits 30 Credits

h/p = hours per week, SU = seminaristic class, S = seminar, P = practical work, G = German, E = English

Formal Methods of Software Engineering

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hans-Theo Meinholz, Prof. Dr. Rainer Todtenhöfer

Duration per week: 4 h/w (2 hrs seminars, 2 hrs practical work)

Period of lectures: Winter Semester

Language: English

Prerequisites: sound knowledge of Software Engineering, Machine Theory and Formal Language Theory, Predictability and Complexity Theory

Contents:

Attributed grammer System models

o Basic element

o Structural condition

o Data condition

o Communication condition

o System condition

o Time and behaviour

o Behaviour of components and system

Descriptive Techniques

o Views

o Models

o Meta-models

Model-Driven Architecture

o Overview of MDA

o Platform Independent Model (PIM)

o Platform Specific Model (PSM)

o Meta Object Facility (MOF)

o Model transformation

o Object Constraint Language

o Tools and development areas

Educational targets: During the course of the bachelor programm, students will learn about the fundamental aspects of Software Engineering techniques. In this course, students will learn further concepts relating to Software Engineering. Students will be able to evaluate the significance of models, meta-models and formal techniques within Software Engineering. They will be capable of judging the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) of the OMG and of employing it in Software Development.

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Performance record: Examination / Written Exam and Oral Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

Development of Business Applications

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rainer Todtenhöfer, Prof. Dr. Hans-Theo Meinholz

Duration per week: 4 h/w seminars


Language: English

Prerequisites: Competent knowledge of Software-Engineering, Programming

Contents:

Architecture (definition and meaning) Architecture framework

o Complete and partial architecture

o Architectural views

Components of business architecture

o Business architecture

o Business processes

o Business workflow

Components of applied architecture

o Overview of multi-tier architecture

o Enterprise application integration

o Integration of business and legacy systems

o Integration using XML

o Integration using web services

Multi-tier architecture, assignments and implementation techniques

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o Presentation level

o Application level

o Persistence level

Current techniques and standards

o J2EE

o .NET

o Scripts

Educational targets: Students will learn the most important architectural models so that they can understand and implement the complex commercial software systems. They will also learn to categorise the significance of components in software-development processes.


Credits: 5 Credits

Business Process Analysis, Evaluation and Re-Design BP (AERD)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Gillner

Duration per week: 4 h/w seminar


Language: English or German

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Business Process Modelling

Contents:

Methods and tools for GPM optimisation Interlinking processes (internal and external), including process management

Sectored business processes I

Sectored business processes II

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Management of change

Lean management

Total quality management

Supply chain management

Efficient consumers' response

Business process engineering and re-engineering, including the selection and usage of suitable tool sets

Educational targets: Students will master the fundamental aspects of business process modelling GPM (analysis, structuring, integration and design). This basis should allow students to implement GPM optimisation and business process re-engineering activities in practice. Included in this is naturally the ability to select, deploy and configure the relevant tools. A particular focus lies on the modelling of sectored business processes, with central and sectored data management. On top of this, student should also be capable of initiating and controlling management of change processes.

Performance record: Examination / Term paper and Oral Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Peter Peinl

Duration per week: 4 h/w seminaristic class


Language: English

Prerequisites: Good knowledge in Business Adminsitration

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Contents:

Application areas for ERP systems Aims and challenges for ERP systems

The architecture of ERP systems

Technology to implement ERP systems

Integrating ERP systems in the supply chain management and the customer relationship management

Practical exercises with a commercial ERP system (e.g. SAP R3)

Case study

Educational targets: In small teams (2/3 people) students can use commercial ERP systems to work on a complex task from the field of business application. Students will be able to use their pre-existing specialist business knowledge and will independently seek to deepen this knowledge. Students will unterstand the aims, the composition and the function of commercial ERP systems.

Performance record: Examination / Case study with Elaboration and Presentation

Credits: 5 Credits

Project 1

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rainer Todtenhöfer

Duration per week: 4 h/w project

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Language: English

Prerequisites: None

Contents: Students work on a project from the field of "Information Technology". This project will be structured in such a way that the contents of the individual modules from the Master's degree will be included, furthered and presented in the overall context of the project. The supervising Professor will help each group orientate themselves with the contents of the project and will support the group as they seek to gain a deepened knowledge for the implementation of the project. The supervisor will also help with the project implementation. The students organise the project groups themselves, which comprise of between 8 and 10 people. Each group organises the setting up and development of its own project.

Educational targets: Students work in a team and use modern project management instruments to work on a complex task from the area of Information Technology. Students will be able to use their previously gained knowledge in the applied project. They will independently develop and further this knowledge. Teamwork will encourage and impart leadership and communication competences as well as entrepreneurial thinking and strategical business competences.

Performance record: Examination / Elaboration and Presentation

Credits: 5 Credits

Foreign Languages

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Lecturer: Lecturer from the language department of the faculty of Social and Cultural Studies

Duration per week: 4 h/w seminars


Language: Depends on foreign language offer

Prerequisites: None

Contents: Depends on foreign language offer

Educational targets: The module increases the students' knowledge of foreign languages. Students are able to take language classes (German as a Foreign Language for visiting students) and to also make use of the English classes offered by the faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences (e. g. English classes from the international Master degree programm "Intercultural Communications and European Studies"). This allows students to look beyond their own faculty and prepares them for the increasing international and global nature of the world of work.


Credits: 5 Credits

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Strategic Management / Consulting

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Markus Göltenboth, Prof. Dr. Volker Warschburger

Duration per week: 4 h/w seminar

Period of lectures: Summer Semester

Language: German

Prerequisites: None

Contents:

Development of strategical business planning Instruments, including balanced scorecards, structural analysis of industries,

scenario analysis, early detection systems, value chain concepts, PIMS, PLZ concepts, experience curve concepts, portfolio analysis

Selected questions, including normative management (business philosophy and culture), business mergers, live cycle-orientated and international business management

Fundamental principles of consulting

Types of consulting

Contents and themes of consulting

Phases of the consulting process

Instuments of consulting

Managing consulting projects

Case studies

Educational targets: Graduates from the Master of Science in Electronic Business are qualified for potential selected jobs in economics and management. As part of this, it is essential to give students a well-grounded look into strategical business management, in order to build on your focus on one specific area (informatics) by giving you a holistic, long-term and wide-ranging knowledge of business. Students will learn about techniques and working methods relating to both internal and external management consultants, and will be able to use these, as it is exactly in this future-orientated field of work that the key prospects for graduates from Masters of Science degree lie.

Performance record: Examination / Elaboration and Oral Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

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Knowledge Management / Data Warehouse

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Peter Peinl, MSc. Dipl. Inf. Hans-Martin Pohl

Duration per week:

Knowledge Management2 h/w seminar class

Data Warehouse 2 h/w seminar


Language: German

Prerequisites:

Knowledge ManagementNone

Data Warehouse In-depth knowledge of database systems and data management

Contents:

Knowledge Management

Knowledge of economic factors Definition and scope of knowledge

Definition of knowledge management

Costs - value - challenges

Structure of a knowledge management culture

Codification versus personalisation

Instruments and tools

Implementation and planning

Distributed knowledge bases

Future trends

Data Warehouse

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Typical areas of application for data warehouse Process model for construction of a data warehouse

ETL and tools

OLAP and tools

Data mining and tools

Business intelligence and tools

Data warehouse project

Educational targets:

Knowledge ManagementStudents receive a comprehensive overview of the management of knowledge. They will be able to differentiate between knowledge and data and information, to recognise the life cycle of knowledge and to appreciate the worth of this knowledge for businesses.Alongside knowledge of instruments and tools for knowledge management, students recognise strategies for the implementation of knowledge management in business and have a comprehensive knowledge of the structure of knowledge management culture.Through practical exercises, taught material will be converted into concrete examples.

Data Warehouse Students receive a comprehensive overview of the problems of integrating and evaluating large heterogeneous databases for business purposes.They will learn about instruments and tools for the planning, constructing and undertaking of data warehouses. Students will recognise essential concepts from OLAP, data mining and business intelligence and know their areas of application within business.Through case studies during practical exercises, taught material will be converted into concrete examples.

Performance record: Examination

Knowledge ManagementWritten exam

Data WarehouseCase study with elaboration and presentation

Credits: 5 Credits

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Human Computer Interaction

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jan-Torsten Milde, Prof. Dr. Werner Heinzel

Duration per week: 3 h/w (2 h/w seminars, 1 h/w practical work)


Language: English

Prerequisites: None

Contents:

Overview of approaches to the processo Rule-based approaches

o Statistical approaches

o Hybrid approaches

o Adaptive approaches

Procedures regarding text and voice processing

o Machines and regular languages (FSTNs and RTNs)

o Rule-based approaches: parsing with context-free and mild context-sensitive grammars

o Presenting contents with frames

Procedures regarding text and voice production

o Canned text

o Template-based approaches (script and frames)

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o Rule-based production systems

o Language synthesis

Procedures regarding gesture and text processing

o Offline and online procedures of recording fonts

o Separating fore and background

o Segmenting

o Classification and recognition

o Representation of results

Integrating the individual modalities

o Frame-based integration

o Time-based integration

o Sensor fusion

Educational targets: Students learn in which ways multimodal interfaces designed for humans have to be designed and implemented. Current processing procedures for a series of different modalities are also presented within the module.In the laboratory practicals the students independently ascertain data sets and use presented approaches to process this data.Students learn rule-based procedures for voice processing and voice production, and statistical procedures for the recognition of voice, text, gesture and mimic. Students are able to judge which approach should be used to process the various modalities and which complexities the respective procedure shows.

Performance record: Examination / Written Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

IT-Security

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bühler

Duration per week: 3 h/w (2 h/w seminars, 1 h/w practical work)


Language: German

Prerequisites: Good knowledge in information technology, computer architecture, computer network, communication network

Contents:

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Embedding IT security into business operations and the business sphere of a company; security politics

Vocabulary of concepts for IT security and IT risk management

Introduction to threats (viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other attacks) and security criteria

Secure contents: basics of cryptography (encryption, integrity, authenticity)

Special cryptographical processes (e. g. RSA, AES, ElGamal, Elliptic Curve, Cryptosystems)

Security protocols (e. g. AH, ESP, SSL/TSL, SHTTP, S/MIME)

PKI as security infrastructure

Secure networks: firewalls, intrusion prevention, virtual private network, remote access service and authenticity protocols (e. g. RADIUS, Kerberos)

WLAN and security

Current issues concerning IT security

Educational targets: Students are taught about IT security, so that they can firstly assess the security of an IT system used in a business and secondly introduce suitable measures to protect the system from attacks. They are given an overview of cryptography and network security, in particular so that they can deal with Ecommerce applications in a secure manner. With the example of chosen problem fields, students learn about state of the art security techniques and their application and embedding in company-wide security management.

Performance record: Examination / Written Exam and Elaboration

Credits: 5 Credits

Project 2

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rainer Todtenhöfer

Duration per week: 4 h/w project

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Language: English

Prerequisites: None

Contents: Students work on a project focusing on "commercial applications". This project will be structured in such a way that the contents of the individual modules from the Master's degree will be included, furthered and presented in the overall context of the project. The supervising Professor will help each group as they seek to gain a deepened knowledge for the implementation of the project. The supervisor will also help with the project implementation. The students organise the project groups themselves, which comprise of between 8 and 10 people. Each group organises the setting up and development of its own project.

Educational targets: Students work in a team and use modern project management instruments to work on a complex task from the area of "commercial applications". Students will be able to use their previously gained knowledge in the applied project. They will independently develop and further this knowledge. Teamwork will encourage and impart leadership and communication competences as well as entrepreneurial thinking and strategical business competences.

Performance record: Examination / Elaboration and Oral Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

Legal Aspects and eMarketing

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christian Schrader, Prof. Dr. Volker Warschburger

Duration per week:

Legal Aspects2 h/w seminar class

eMarketing 2 h/w seminar


Language: German

Prerequisites:

Legal AspectsNone

eMarketingBasic knowledge of marketing

Contents:

Legal Aspects

Basic principles of law on a national, European and international level Rules governing telecommunication, media and service law

Data protection laws

Contractual law with special provisions for contracts in electronic business, distance selling and other aspects of consumer protection

Basic principles of copyright and advertising law

Questions concerning procedural law for cross-border business relationships

eMarketing

General features of internet marketing Integration of E-Commerce into business strategies

Market research on the internet

Special forms of communication policies on the internet

Distributional policies on the internet

Pricing policies on the internet

Product policies on the internet

Questions concerning supply-chain management

Trends in eMarketing


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Legal AspectsStudents receive a comprehensive overview of the management of knowledge. They will be able to differentiate between knowledge and data and information, to recognise the life cycle of knowledge and to appreciate the worth of this knowledge for businesses.Alongside knowledge of instruments and tools for knowledge management, students recognise strategies for the implementation of knowledge management in business and have a comprehensive knowledge of the structure of knowledge management culture.Throught practical exercises, taught material will be converted into concrete examples.

eMarketingOne important practical application of eBusiness is in the area of marketing. In this class students will deal with current problems from the area of eMarketing. The focus will, therefore, lie on the business aspects of this topic. Legal aspects will be dealt with in the LVA Law module. Students will learn to develop solutions to formulated eMarketing problems, which in turn form the prerequisites for the concrete implementation into eBusiness systems.

Performance record: Examination

Legal AsprectsWritten Exam

eMarketingElaboration and Oral Exam

Credits: 5 Credits

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Masterthesis

Lecturer: Professors of the department of Applied Computer Science

Duration per week: -


Language: In arrangement with professor

Prerequisites:

MasterthesisStudents may start their Master thesis once they have successfully passed all the modules from MEB 1 to MEB 12. Anyone who has failed two of the modules between MEB 1 and MEB 12 cann only be admitted to the Master thesis module when the board of examiners has approved a respective application for early admission. The application must be justified and submitted in good time.

ColloquiumStudents who received a mark of at least "satisfactory" for their Master thesis may take the colloquium.

Contents: Depends on particular topic chosen


MasterthesisIn the framework of the Master thesis, students independently compose a written dissertation. The topic must originate from the field of the Master degree in Electronic Business. The work should demonstrate that the candidate is in the position to use scientific methods to independently work on a problem from the chosen topic within a specified time period.

ColloquiumWithin a specified time period after submission of the Master thesis, a final discussion (colloquium) will take place with an expert from the field relevant to the thesis. In this discussion, the writer of the tesis presents the results of their work and is examined on one particular aspect of the related discourse. The colloquium lasts approximately 45 minutes. The mark given for the colloquium is included in the final mark of the Master thesis. The colloquium serves to test the independence of the student's work.

Performance record: Examination / Elaboration

Credits: 30 Credits

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