582464 Autonomisten järjestelmien yhteistyö (6 op, 3 ov)
Collaboration of autonomous business services

Brief in English

If interested to take the course in English, please do not hesitate contacting, either in email or by phone.

Goals

The current trend of globalization of business and increased demand for electronic business networks sets high demands for the computing platforms and business applications used in enterprises. The platforms are expected to provide support for business network establishment, participation into multiple networks simultaneously, and adaptation to heterogeneous technologies.

During the course, the participants will actively gather information about the collaboration challenges and problems in an open networked environment. As potential solutions, modern middleware, business process management, and virtual organisation architectures are studied.

Prerequisities

Elective laudatur course. Organised by sub-programme Distributed systems and data communication.

The assumption is made that courses like Distributed systems, Operating systems 1-2 and Data communication 1-2 are previously covered. An alternative route is via Software engineering sub-programme with Software arhitectures course.

A strong prerequisite requirement is set on the course Scientific Writing, as half of the coursework is invested on individual litterature study and writing task.

Course contents

• Orientation
• Introduction
• Integration or interoperability? Differences in challenges and various architectural approaches.
• Service oriented architecture, SOA
• Management tasks of virtual organisations
• Business process management
• Electronic contracting approaches
• Service selection and matching

Getting credit for this course

The course consists of

• Lectures in Finnish and associated reading assignments in English. For working through the reading assignments without the help of "tutoring" at the lectures, there will be a list of quesitions and recommendations on what to concentrate on while reading. You may also drop in during the office hours (lecturer, or course assistant) to ask for clarification.
• Exam that covers the reading assingments.
• Seminar paper from an individually chosen topic. Talk with the course assistant for the process. (The papers are presented to the group in the end of the lecture series, if applicable.)

The compulsory parts are the exam and the paper. Each contributes half of the credit units and half of the grade points.

Material