Numeric Methods
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1st. Semester
- Solving a Non-Linear Equation
- Iterative Methods
- Numeric Methods
- Newton
- Secante
- Simple Iteration
- Solving Linear Equation Systems: Direct Methods
- The Gauss Elimination Method
- Choosing a Pivot
- Not Choosing a Pivot
- Calculating the Inverse Matrix and Determinant
- Special Matrixes
- Tri-diagonal: Thomas Algorithm
- Defined Positive Symmetric Matrixes
- Solving Linear Equation Systems: Iterative Methods
- Solving Non-Linear Equation Systems
- The Interpolative Formula of Lagrange
- The Interpolative Formula of Newton
- Approximation of Minimum Quadrates
2nd. Semester
- Mathematic Programming
- Background
- Linear Programming
- Simplex
- Big M
- Two Phases
- Sensibility Analysis
- Duality Theorem
- Shadow Price
- Primal and Dual
- Dual Simplex
- Transports
- Optimal Analysis
- North-West and Minimal Cost Methods
- Stepping-Stone
- Multipliers
- Typical Models
- Merchandise Overflow
- Choosing best mean of transport
- Intermediary storage
- Superior Limits
- Variable Cost
- Parametric Programming
- Variable Availability
- Integer Programming
- Branch & Bound
- Fractional Cutting
- Mixed Cutting
- Typical Models
- Fixed Cost
- Production Planning
- Dichotomies
- Lot Dimensions
- Dynamic Programming and Deterministic Models
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Financial
Management
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The Financial Function
- What does the Financial Department do?
Analysis Instruments and Techniques
Financial Equilibrium on Short and Medium/Long Term
- The Functional Balance
- Analyzing the Monetary Fluxes
- Conditions to Maintain the Financial Equilibrium
- Solvability
- Losing and Regaining Solvability
Profitability
- Integral Analysis of Various Types of Profitability
- The Fundamental Equation of Profitability
- The Financial Lever Effect
Analysis of the Capital Markets
Evaluation of Stocks and Obligation
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Business Management
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Introduction to Operational Management
Methods to do Previsions
- Temporal Series
- Classical Decomposition
- Exponential Smoothing
- Simple
- Holt Model
- Holt-Winters Model
Quality Management
- Quality Definition
- Total Quality Management
- TQM Tools
- Statistical Quality Control
Aggregated Planning
- Leveled Plan
- Chase Plan
- Hybrid Plan
Capacity Planning
Project Management
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Information Systems II
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System Concepts
- Structure, environment, hierarchy, control, properties
- Kinds of systems; natural, social, human activity, designed
- Autonomous Viable System Model
Organizational Systems
- Organizational activities; operational, administrative
- Functional division and other means of structuring organizations
The decision taking process
Information
Information Systems
- Informatics Systems in Organizations
- The variety of informatics systems existing
- Necessary Infra-Structure
- Classification of Users
- Evaluation of Informatics Systems
Modeling Information Systems
- Types of Models
- Utility of Models
- What to model?
- An Organizational Systems and its Structure
- The Architecture of an Information System
- An Information System
- An Informatics System and its requirements, interfaces, structures and components
Modeling Techniques
- A variety of useful techniques in the Structured and Object Oriented areas
- Strategies to deal with complexity
Obtaining and Validating Knowledge to create Models
Organizational Challenges when Adopting a new Informatics System
The Process of Developing Information Systems
Study of the Evolution of Information Systems
Various Methodologies (SSADM, Multiview, SSM)
This subject has a strong laboratorial component because of the Project (read my evolution). Oracle, SQL, PHP used quite a lot.
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Databases
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The Database Management System
- ANSI/SPARC Architecture
- Transactions
- Fundamental Requirements
- DBMS vs. File Management Systems
Organization and Storage of Data
- Memory Hierarchy
- Buffer Management
- Access Methods and File Organization
- The Flexibility / Efficiency Compromise
- Clustering / Declustering
Pre-Relational Models
Relational Models
- Concepts
- The 12 laws of Cod
- Normalization
- Redundancy
- Functional, Multivalue and Junction Dependencies
- The Normalization Process
- Consequences of Normalization
- Relational Languages (SQL and Others)
- Processing and Query Optimization
- Comparison of Pre-Relational and Relational Models
The Pos-Relational Models
- Extensions of the Relational Model
- Nested Relations
- Temporal Dimension
- The Logical/Deductive Model
- The Object-Oriented Model
Distributed Databases
- Replication and Fragmentation of Data
- Characteristics of a Distributed Database
- Conception
- Processing and Query Optimization
- Heterogeneous Distributed Databases
- Database Gateways / Middleware
- Integration in a Global Model
- Distributed Objects (like CORBA)
- Distributed Database Management
- Advantages, Limitations, Future Perspectives
Performance and Scalability
- Database Computers
- Parallel Database Systems
- Central Memory Databases
This subject has a strong laboratorial component because of the Project (read my evolution). Oracle, SQL, PHP used quite a lot.
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Operating Systems, Components and their use
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The Operating System Functions
The OS Evolution
OS Structure
Processes
- Pseudo-parallelism
- Inter-process communication and synchronization
- Process Scheduling
File systems
- Files, Directories
- File system Implementations
Memory Management
I/O Management
Distributes Systems
- Structure
- Hardware and Software
- Conception Requirements
- System Models
- Client-Server
- Group
- Distributed Objects
Networks and Communication Protocols
Remote Inter-process Communication
- Socket Interface TCP/IP
- Associating Services to Processes
- External Data Representation and Marshalling
Distributes Programming Paradigms
CORBA
- Components
- Services
- Programming
Distributes File-Systems
This subject has a strong laboratorial component through programming in C (system calls, threads and concurrency issues) and Java (distributed systems, remote communication, remote objects, CORBA, Java).
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