Information and Knowledge-based Systems

Guarantee: Prof. RNDr. Peter Mikulecký, PhD.

 

Goal:

The goal of the subject is to introduce doctoral students into most recent trends, practical experience, as well as theoretical knowledge from the area of research, development, application, as well as maintenance of information and knowledge-based systems at the level enabling them to achieve original scientific results in the scope of their doctoral dissertations.

 

Syllabus:

  1. General introduction into the area of information and knowledge-based systems.
  2. Centralized and decentralized information systems, computer networks.
  3. Architectures of information systems.
  4. Applications of information systems, maintenance and innovations. Information system and its place in the organization culture.
  5. Multimedia systems.
  6. The Life Cycle of information systems, their development.
  7. Foundations of artificial intelligence.
  8. Architecture of knowledge-based systems; centralized and decentralized solutions.
  9. Introduction to knowledge engineering.
  10. The Life Cycle of a knowledge project. Development of knowledge-based systems.
  11. Agent-based architecture, multi-agent systems.
  12. Perspectives of information and knowledge-based systems, their mutual convergence.
  13. Data and solution protection.
  14. Legal and ethical aspects.

 

Literature:

  1. Awad, E.M. & Ghaziri, H. M. (2004). Knowledge Management. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-034820-1
  2. Bureš, V.: Znalostní management a proces jeho zavádění: příručka pro praxi, Grada Publishing, Praha, 2007 (In Czech)
  3. Dalkir, K.: Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice. Elsevier Butterworth – Heinemann, Burlington, MA, 2005, ISBN 0-7506-7864-X
  4. Davenport, T., Prusak, L.: Working knowledge: How organizations manage what they know. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1998. (Paperback printing 2000), ISBN 1-57851-301-4
  5. Kelemen, J. a kol.: Pozvanie do znalostnej spoločnosti, Iura Edition, Bratislava, 2007 (In Slovak)
  6. Mládková, L.: Moderní přístupy k managementu: Tacitní znalost a jak ji řídit. Praha: Nakladatelství C. H. Beck, 2005, ISBN 80-7179-310-8 (In Czech)
  7. Russel,S., Norvig, P.: Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, 1995
  8. Stefik, M.: Introduction to Knowledge Systems. Morgan Kaufman, San Francisco, 1995