Paavo Kotinurmi, Matti Hämäläinen.
External expert lecturers: Janne J. Korhonen & Jari Kekkonen & Armin Haller, ++.
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Teach the basics of enterprise application integration within and between enterprises. We discuss the basic technologies used and current trends. Course projects are based on real cases from industry as well as academically interesting cases.
Objectives of the course are:
The most important part of the course is the group project done in the groups of 3 (2-4) people. The topics for the projects come from the industry or academically interesting subjects.
The course begins with lecture sessions summarising main aspects and learning diary is expected to be kept by the students. The project execution and scientific writing will be guided. Lecturers are experts in the respective fields. The main part of the projects are done during November-December when there are no lectures. Finally end presentations are delivered to teh crowd consisting of other students and some industrial people interested in your projects in early January.
The course links page contains material helpful for the projects and weekly learning diary assignments. The normal number of credits for this course is 8 points. Roughly 2 points come for attending the lectures and the lecture diaries and the remaining six come from the project part.
Attendance on 70 % on the lectures. Approved learning diary. Approved project work. In addition, reviewing another project work.
The total grade for the course is as follows:
All the subparts of the course needs to be completed for a grade. Returning the reports late will drop the grade by one.
The limit of participants is 30 students due to the guidance available for the projects. Students, who have T-86 major or minor and with all the needed prerequisites are privileged to attend to the course. If there are still free places after these students left, on the second place are the students who have all the needed prerequisites (T-86.5141).
The separate guidelines page for the reports is found here.
The final reports should use LNCS-guidelines. The MS Word zip available in the secure pages.
The preferred language for the whole seminar is English, especially if the course have many international students.
The course meets once a week on Mondays at 16-19. The first lecture is on Monday, 17th of September. See schedule page for more details.
1st learning diary, DL Monday 24th of September at 9 am.
Write about following topics
2nd learning diary, DL Monday 1st of October at 9 am.
Write about following topics
3rd learning diary, DL Monday 8th of October at 9 am.
4th learning diary, DL Monday 15th of October at 9 am.
5th learning diary, DL Thursday 8th of November at 9 am.
6th learning diary, DL Wednesday 19th of December at 9 am.
Project plan should cover the main points of the guidelines first chapter. So research problem, objectives, scoping, methodologies and main literature. Main literature/sources to get it. If the work includes interviewing experts, one should be able to specify who are interviewed (peoples positions, amount of interviews, etc.). In addition, plan should contain a schedule and some approximates for the work packages for different phases. Return the plan as a word or PDF-document to course address on the DL day.
Project plan presentation should be approximately 15 minutes per topic and then there is little discussion. Presentations should be sent to teacher 24 hours before the presentations. The main points is brief background, research problem, objectives, scoping, methodologies, literature and how to proceed from here. Slide per issue is probably a good approach.
The first full version of the report is the first report that reviewers will also comment. The review reports can be obtained by course secure pages after the deadline for submission. The joint sessions between the group and the reviewers are held together with course personnel. The objective of the review is to better the report by making constructive comments how to make report better (more readable, a good add to references, or such). You should also find what is good in the report (at least three good issues). Good reviews can help to raise the grade by one of the whole course. The reviews are the most useful if the comments are also available electronically so that typos/bad sentences etc. can be marked using e.g. word comments. Also suggestions, what is missing or what might help to make the report more readable are welcome.
For review sessions - the group under review first quickly presents their topic (10 minutes using slides presentation) then we discuss what could be done to enhance the report. Now the reviewers were gathered according to wishes in the last learning diary - and once that did not specify topics were distributed to make the spread even so that there are always as many reviewers than the group making the reviews.
As there is a possibility to raise a grade according to review - that is now given personalised - so make a review in electronic form and give out highlights in paper on session to group being reviewed plus the course.
The most important issues you need to communicate in the presentation are (in order of importance):
If you need further guidelines you can always consult the course staff to comment your presentations beforehand. Time for presentation roughly 20 minutes followed by short discussion.
Demonstrations or graphical examples are often useful for clarifying the presentations. You should reserve also time for questions (about 5-10 minutes). Active discussion is appreciated - as the discussion and of course the presentation affects the final grade.
For additional details on the seminar you can e-mail the course staff at t865161(at)soberit.hut.fi.