来源：NTU
The MSc (Information Systems) programme (MSIS) is a collaboration between the School of Communication & Information (SCI) and the School of Computer Engineering (SCE). The programme blends theory and practice and aims to equip students with advanced knowledge necessary for the design, development, maintenance and management of information systems.
Such training will include exposure to the latest technologies used in the development of information systems, as well as core skills required to cope with the rapidly changing nature of the field. To this end, the MSIS programme is broad-based and covers a range of technical and soft skills that an Information Systems professional is expected to possess. Broadly, these are categorised as:
Software Development and Infrastructure
Provides students with a core of knowledge required for the design, development and maintenance of information systems.

Human Computer Interaction
Provides students with the knowledge for designing information systems that are both useful and usable from an end-user perspective.

Management of Systems and Services
Provides students with the soft skills required for managing information systems projects, information systems personnel and resources.



Core Courses (Compulsory)

CI6101 Information Architecture

CI6102 Object-oriented Information Systems

CI6103 Professional Seminar

Group 'A' Elective Courses
Select any two.
CI6111 Internet Programming

CI6112 Human Computer Interaction - Users, Tasks and Designs

CI6113 Software Project Management

CI6114 Database Systems

Group 'B' Elective Courses
Select any 4 for Coursework and Dissertation students.
Select any 6 for Coursework Only students.
CI6121 Distributed Internet Applications

CI6122 Multimedia Systems Development

CI6123 Mobile Applications Development

CI6124 Data Mining and Machine Learning

CI6125 Enterprise Portals and Digital Libraries

CI6126 Information Retrieval Systems

CI6127 Distributed Database Systems

CI6128 Usability Engineering

CI6129 Information Visualisation

CI6130 Management of Information Systems and Services

CI6131 Software Performance Analysis

CI6191 Special Topic 1

CI6192 Special Topic 2

CI6193 Special Topic 3

CI6194 Special Topic 4

CI6199 Critical Inquiry in Information Systems

Dissertation (For Coursework and Dissertation Students)

Information Systems Research Project


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Description of Core Courses
CI6101 Information Architecture
Key concepts related to information discovery and methods of navigation and searching on Web sites; Information architecture as an approach for site development and organisation (involving knowledge from multiplicity of fields). Tools, techniques and processes needed to build and maintain the architecture. Issues related to site design and interface, contents and context, and users and usability. Forms of discourse and text structure suitable to the Web environment. Information organisation: metadata, controlled vocabularies, classification schemes, knowledge maps, and taxonomies. Description and indexing of WWW resources.
CI6102 Object-Oriented Information Systems
Overview of the software development life cycle; software process models; traditional software engineering methods. Requirements analysis and systems specification; Fundamentals of object-oriented programming: encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism. Object-oriented analysis and design concepts and techniques including use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML); Design patterns and object-oriented frameworks; Software testing.
CI6103 Professional Seminar
Series of seminars will be conducted to provide an overview of the areas related to the field of information systems. Speakers will be drawn from academia, industry and professional organisations. Methods and approaches to research and development suitable in the area of information systems will be covered and case studies of implementation of information systems from industry and academia will be shared.

Description of Group 'A' Elective Courses
CI6111 Internet Programming
Internet communication protocols such as TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP and HTTP; Basic networking concepts; Advanced Web page development with Dynamic HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets; Server-side development technologies such as Perl, PHP, ASP, Java servlets and JSP; Socket programming; Security issues including threat identification, security strategies, encryption and authentication.
CI6112 Human Computer Interaction - Users, Tasks and Designs
Introduction to general design and usability issues; Psychology of design of everyday things; Key cognitive and physical human capabilities and their relations to design of usable and useful systems; Users: personas, human factors and human diversity; Tasks: goals, scenarios; Design: general established design heuristics and guidelines; International design heuristics and guidelines from three perspectives: cultural, ethical and legal; Relate design and usability methods to the wider systems development process.
CI6113 Software Project Management
Project management concepts; Project definition; Project planning: quality, time and cost dimensions; Project communication and documentation; Project implementation and control; Project completion; Project management information systems; Software tools; Project team: roles, responsibility and authority; Performance evaluation; Organisational behavioural skills for project management; Best practices; Case studies in project management.
CI6114 Database Systems
Overview of database models: relational and object-oriented database models; Relational database design: data modelling using the Entity-Relationship diagram and normalisation of relational tables; Database definition and manipulation: SQL and Query By Example; Managing database environments: database administration, transaction processing, concurrency control, client-server processing, and security. Web-based database applications developments using Web development tools.

Description of Group 'B' Elective Courses
CI6121 Distributed Internet Applications
Issues related to the design and implementation of large-scale Web-based information systems; XML processing with XSL, Document Object Model, and related APIs and technologies; Enterprise component technologies such as EJB, CORBA and Microsoft .NET; Web services: architecture, protocols, tools and languages; Web server administration: installation, maintenance, performance tuning, and log analysis.
CI6122 Multimedia Systems Development
Introduction to multimedia, hypertext, hypermedia and their applications; Multimedia basics: text, graphics, animation, audio, video and file formats; Compression techniques in images, audio and video content; Multimedia standards; Multimedia development tools, technologies and languages; Development for standalone and Web-based multimedia information systems; Media rights management; Distributed multimedia; Technologies and techniques for multimedia content management.
CI6123 Mobile Applications Development
Data communications and networking concepts: network topologies, LANs, WANs, switching techniques, OSI model, and TCP/IP protocols; Wireless networking: cellular wireless networks, mobile IP, IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN and Bluetooth; Mobile device applications development: J2ME, mobile information device profile (MIDP) and connected limited device configuration (CLDC); WAP, WML and WMLScript; Location-based wireless applications: GPS and network-based positioning techniques.
CI6124 Data Mining and Machine Learning
The knowledge discovery process; data preparation; Supervised and unsupervised learning. Machine learning: decision tree induction, rule induction, nearest neighbour categorisation, cluster analysis, Bayesian learning and neural networks; Web mining: content, structure and usage mining; Information mining software and tools; Recommender systems and intelligent information retrieval; spiders; semantic Web; information agents and brokers.
CI6125 Enterprise Portals and Digital Libraries
Introduction to information and knowledge portals: types and examples; Introduction to digital libraries: theoretical and historical foundations, Infrastructure for digital libraries; Information retrieval and distributed information discovery; Access management and security; Application development models; Users and usability: human information behaviour, research models, user interfaces; Digital preservation and digitisation; Social, economic, policy, cultural and ethical issues and challenges and trends.
CI6126 Information Retrieval Systems
The study of the representation, storage, and access to very large digital document collections; Data structures and algorithms for compressing, indexing, and querying large digital collections: Huffman coding, inverted file indexing, Boolean query processing, ranked query processing, and document similarity measures; Techniques for the evaluation of information retrieval systems; Development of multimedia information applications.
CI6127 Distributed Database Systems
Overview of distributed database systems: the relational database model, computer networks, and distributed DBMS architecture. Distributed database design and manipulation: distributed data modeling, normalisation, physical database design, database definition, and query processing. Managing distributed database environments: multiple database administration, transaction processing, concurrency control, security, backup, failure recovery, and high-availability solutions. Data warehouses, object-based databases, and XML databases. Distributed database application development using software development tools.
CI6128 Usability Engineering
Introduction to a range of user-centred tools, methods and techniques for building usable and useful systems complementing other software development approaches; Creative design aids: requirements analysis, scenario-based design, claims analysis, statecharts; Usability evaluation aids: usability inspection methods – heuristic evaluation, cognitive walkthrough; analytic evaluation methods – GOMS and keystroke level analysis; experimental evaluation methods: qualitative and quantitative methods.
CI6129 Information Visualisation
The study of concepts, models and examples for improved information visualisation; Rearrangement and interaction: affordances, table lens, mosaic displays, network data, algorithms; Representation and interpretation data: quantitative, ordinal and categorical data; Dynamic exploration: dynamic queries, attribute explorer, neighbourhood explorer, model maker; Connectivity: graph theory, general networks, tree structures; Document visualisation: TileBars, galaxies, themescapes, galaxy of news, Kohonen maps.
CI6130 Management of Information Systems and Services
Principles, theories, and practices of management in relation to information enterprises; Defining mission, goals, and objectives; Organisational structure and authority; directing, controlling, decision making; delegation, motivation and leadership; Role of IS personnel; Measuring and evaluating; Critical thinking and problem-solving; Project management; Entrepreneurship.
CI6131 Software Performance Analysis
Software test process and principles: planning, specification, execution, checking, recording and completion; Test techniques: Functional, structural and non-functional testing techniques, static and dynamic analysis, non-systematic testing techniques; Software Reviews; Computer-aided software testing tools; Test management; Risk management; Disaster recovery; Best practices; Case studies in software performance analysis and evaluation.
CI6191-4 Special Topic 1-4
Subjects in special areas of the Information Systems field not covered in the above list may be offered occasionally according to the special interests of staff members and visiting staff.
CI6199 Critical Inquiry in Information Systems
Overview of how to design and conduct research projects in the area of information systems. Research study design, preparation of proposals and manuscripts, intellectual property and ethics. Introduction to the main types of research methods, with a more in-depth examination of a few useful methods, to address information systems problems.

Description of Dissertation
Information Systems Research Project
Harnessing the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired in the programme and applying them to solve information systems-related research problems, create new knowledge or develop new information system products or services is an essential part of the programme. In this respect, each student is mentored by a staff member in an in information systems research project leading to a dissertation of up to 15,000 words. The project can be in any information systems area.

境内服务项目包括：
提供大学留学项目咨询；
提供大学面试前培训[包括：面试流程、问题类型、答题技巧等]；
负责个性化递申思路指导；
代办毕业证书公证、成绩单公证；
代办大学申请材料[大学申请表、留学意向书、个人简历等]；
代办高端专业申请文书的修改、润色、成型与翻译
代办大学语言、Foundation以及大学专业录取通知书；
协助办理因私护照；
代办境外医疗及以外伤害保险；
代办留学签证；
提供行前培训[日常学习、生活介绍]；
代购赴新加坡留学生机票；
国内集体送机。

境外服务项目包括：
提供境外专人机场接机服务；
提供电话供学生给家里报平安；
安排学生住进学生公寓，并协助学生签署租房协议；
协助学生办理入学注册手续；
代办学生证、学生学期车票；
代办新加坡境内医疗、以外伤害保险手续；
代办银行开户手续；
协助学生购买日常生活用品；
提供转学、转专业、转学分咨询；
代办留学签证续签、留学签证转工作签证；
协助解决在新加坡遇到的生活、学习问题。



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