Main Announcements Archive:

• COMP 3710 / 7580 are in two different grading pools. The marking standards will probably be around the same though I shall adjust if indeed necessary.
• Project Proposal - only need: Title / abstract / draft introduction and best with some related work / other section and subsection headings or outline - postponed for one week (early October) because of holidays.
• Exam weight (70%) updated according to new syllabus of the department.
• IT infrastructures / systems analyst and design as well as emerging technology application in advanced case studies are the theme of this course.
• Most cases are based on publications of the lecturer in order to provide first hand information and in-depth understanding.
• In Lecture 2, I shall present the main case study first before the enabling technologies. Note that technical details of those enabling technologies (as opposed to COMP7770) are not the focus of this course.
• Technical details are for references and illustration - so they will not be examined.
• The contemporary approach is to achieve both information integration and process integration via service-oriented integration, so called "Service-Oriented Architecture" (SOA).