Minutes of the First Coordination meeting
of TEMPUS JEP-16067-2001:
TEACHING BUSINESS INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
Belgrade, September, 4.- 6.
The meeting was held at the Faculty of the Organizational sciences, University of
Belgrade. Cochairmen of the meeting were Prof. dr Dan Simpson, the contractor and
Prof. dr Branislav Lazarević, the coordinator of the Project. The Agenda of the
meeting is enclosed (Appendix 1). The sequence of items in the Minutes follows the
one in the Agenda.
1. Participants
1. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
dr Branislav Lazarević, coordinator - branko@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
dr Dusan Starčević - starcev@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
dr Dragana Bečejski - draganab@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
mr Milica Vučković - milica@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
Slađan Babarogić - sladjan@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
Also participating in the Project, but were not present:
dr Vladan Devedžić - devedzic@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
dr Vidojko Ćirić - ciric@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
dr Vera Vujičić - verakov@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
dr Zoran Marjanović - zormar@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
mr Siniša Nešković - sinisa@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu
2. University of Brighton, Faculty of Information Technology
dr Dan Simpson, contractor - Dan.Simpson@brighton.ac.uk
dr Bob Hughes - R.T.Hughes@brighton.ac.uk
mr Pavle Bataveljić - P.S.Bataveljic@brighton.ac.uk
Also participating in the Project, but was not present:
dr Goran Soldar - G.Soldar@brighton.ac.uk
3. Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (ITI–CERTH), Informatics
and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki
dr Demetrios Sampson, sampson@iti.gr, was not present
4. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics – participant
dr Saša Bošnjak - bsale@eccf.su.ac.yu
5.University of Novi Sad, Institute of matematics – participant
Currently does not have nominated participants
6.University of Kragujevac, Technical Faculty Cacak - paticipant
Danijela Milošević - leki@ptt.yu
Ksenija Lajsic - lajovka@eunet.yu
7.University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering–
participant
dr Goran Devedžić - devedzic@ptt.yu
2. Curriculum development
The first version of the structure of the Curriculum for Information System was specified.
The Curriculum structure was the base for forming the groups and assigning the tasks
to them.
The Curriculum structure is the following:
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Curriculum broad areas of knowledge, which can be divided in
•Curriculum streams, sub areas covered by the sequence of
courses
•Curriculum courses (modules) which should be described
according to the following format:
• Prerequisite knowledge,
• Description
• Objectives,
• Content through Learning units,
• Assessment
• Resources and References
• Comments
It was also concluded that the Curriculum for Information Systems we develop should
have more Software Engineering contents then the one given in IEEE/ACM
recommendations
The following broad areas of knowledge has been defined:
1. General education (GE)
2. Information Technology (IT)
3. Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis (QQA)
4. Organizational and Management Concepts (OMC)
5. Theory and Development of Systems (TDS)
6. Domain knowledge (DK)
The “Domain knowledge” should replace parts of the other knowledge areas for
participants having specific curriculum for domain information system or having
information systems as minor.
Only undergraduate curriculum was considered. The development of the graduate
curriculum, as well as specific curricula for domain oriented information systems are
postponed.
The undergraduate curriculum is planned for 8 semesters (4 years) with approximately
40 courses (5 per semester). The weighing factors of the knowledge areas in the
curriculum are:
1.
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GE = 0.15
IT = 0.25
QQA = 0.15
OMC = 0.15
5. TDS = 0.30
The following working group was formed:
IT group (To specify curriculum streams and courses following the prescribed
format):
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Dušan Starčević,
Goran Soldar
Danijela Milošević
Goran Devedžić
Bob Hughes
Demetrios Sampson
TDS group (To specify curriculum streams and courses following the prescribed
format):
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Zoran Marjanović
Pavle Bataveljić
Vladan Devedžić
Vidojko Ćirić
Saša Bošnjak
Siniša Nešković
OMC group ( To describe the OMC knowledge required for IS Curriculum without
specifying courses):
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Dagana Bečejski
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QQA group (To describe the QQA knowledge required for IS Curriculum without
specifying courses):
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Vera Vujčić
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GE group (To describe the GE knowledge required for IS Curriculum without
specifying courses):
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Branislav Lazarević,
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DK groups:
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Goran Devedžić, to specify IS Curriculum for Mechanical Engineering
Danijela Milošević, to specify IS Curriculum for Technical Faculty Cacak
The groups have to finish their work and prepare the reports one week before the
next coordination meeting (middle if January).
Planning publishing of new teaching materials
Proposals for publishing for the first year, with extensive abstract, should be submitted
to the Project coordinator by the end of November.
3. Library system
The functional model of a library system has been defined. The analyses of current
library systems at FRY participant faculties have been performed. According to the
model and result of the analysis the functional and non-functional requirements for
library software have been defined. The working group to chose the library software
compatible to the Serbian library system is formed:
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Branislav Lazarević
Ksenija Lajšić
Milica Vučković
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The group should prepare report for the next coordination meeting. The group is
responsible for buying equipment for libraries.
4. Traveling
The «East to West» travels for the first year have been shared in the following way:
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Faculty of Organizational Sciences – 3;
University of Kragijevac, Mechanical engineering –1;
University of Kragijevac, Techical Faculty, Cacak –1;
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics –1;
University of Novi sad, Institute of Mathematics –1.
The concrete proposals (Who, When, Why) should be submitted to the Project
coordinator by the end of September.
The «West to East» and «West to West» traveling should be agreed upon between
University of Brighton and Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki.
5. Next coordination meeting
The Second coordination meeting will be held in the first half of January
in Jugoslavia.