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GENERAL INFORMATION .............................................................................................................................. 3 INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 LECTURERS DETAILS................................................................................ 4 First semester 2014....................................................................................................................................... 4 Second semester 2014 .................................................................................................................................. 4 INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 PRESCRIBED BOOKS ................................................................................. 4 DATES AND VENUES: FIRST SEMESTER 2014 ................................................................................................ 5 DATES AND VENUES: SECOND SEMESTER 2014 ........................................................................................... 6 INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 EXAM DATES AND VENUES ...................................................................... 7 First semester 2014....................................................................................................................................... 7 Second semester 2013 .................................................................................................................................. 7 SYLLABI .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 YEARBOOK 2014............................................................................................................................................ 9 E-MAIL ADDRESS POLICY ............................................................................................................................. 10 IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WEB ADDRESSES ................................................................................... 11 International students should consult UPs website for additional information: ...................................... 11 PLAGIARISM ................................................................................................................................................ 12 How to avoid plagiarism: ............................................................................................................................ 12 You may use material written by other people, but then the thing to do is to cite the material: ............. 12 Harvard Style:.......................................................................................................................................... 1213 Avoiding plagiarism: A guide for students .................................................................................................. 13 What is plagiarism? 13
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. In total there is eight two hour contact sessions with lecturers (16 hours class contact). 2. During the first semester full-time students have classes on eight Fridays from 08:00 to 17:30. During the second semester classes are presented on eight Fridays from 08:00 to 17:15; in addition, the schedule for KUB780 is available from Mercantile Law. 3. Part-time (working) students need to take only 8 Friday afternoons leave per semester to attend classes (13:00-17:30) - the allocation of courses either to the first or second semester will not change from year to year, but the allocation to Friday mornings and afternoons rotates as far as possible annually. 4. INF714 (Research methodology) is a prerequisite (50% must be attained) for INF780 (Research paper). Both courses are compulsory. 5. Registration: Online only, from the 3rd of January 2014 6. Classes start on 07 February 2014 7. Enquiries: Mrs Rhona van der Merwe (rhona.vandermerwe@up.ac.za or 012 420-6321). 8. More information regarding courses can be found on the following websites: Informatics.up.ac.za/masters Informatics.up.ac.za/doctoral Informatics.up.ac.za/hons Informatics.up.ac.za/postgrad 9. Each course carries 15 credits, with the exception being the research paper which carries 30 credits. Overall a minimum of 120 course credits must be obtained. 10. At least five courses must be taken from this Department of Informatics. The remaining two courses may be taken in other departments (e.g. the departments of the School of Information Technology or the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences). OBS784 may not be presented for degree purposes. 11. Pre-requisite for admission to the degree is an average of at least 60% for Informatics on third year level or 60% for equivalent IT courses, as deemed applicable by the Department of Informatics. IT industry experience may also be taken into account: a written application to Mrs Rhona van der Merwe (rhona.vandermerwe@up.ac.za) including a resume stating all details of such experience is required for evaluation. 12. A student with an IT degree other than BCom (e.g. BSc(IT), BIS, BSc(IS)), who meets the requirement of 60% average for his/her IT majors, will be accepted for the BCom Honours (Informatics) degree. However, he/she has to enrol for and pass the first year, first semester courses in Accounting (FRK111), Business Management (OBS110), Economics (EKN110) and Statistics (STK110), if these subjects were not part of the bachelor's degree. It is a requirement of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences that students who register in this Faculty should have a basic academic background in these subjects. These additional courses may be done concurrently with the honours courses in Informatics. Summer schools are available in Accounting and Economics. Equivalent courses may also be done through Unisa. All BCom(Hons), MCom and DCom degrees will only be awarded if students are in possession of credits for the above-mentioned basic subjects. Students must still complete their degrees in the maximum time allowed and will not be given extra time to complete the basic subjects. (There is currently a degree waiting for approval which will allow these students to do the honours without the fundamental commerce subject). 13. Please note that your semester mark may not be lower than 40% for you to be admitted to the exam. There is also a sub-minimum of 40% on the exam mark in order to pass. Your final mark should be at least 50% in order to pass the course. No supplementary exams or aegrotats will be granted.
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E-Commerce Managing end-users and projects Research Methodology IS Development E-Commerce Managing end-users and projects Research Methodology IS Development
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Advance Database Systems HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Service Management Enterprise Architecture Advance Database Systems HCI (Capita Selecta) IT Service Management Enterprise Architecture
KUB780 IT Law will be presented by the Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law. Contact: Sylvia Papadopoulos E-mail: sylvia.papadopoulos@up.ac.za Tel: (012) 4203859
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INFORMATICS HONOURS 2014 EXAM DATES AND VENUES First semester 2014
Written examination / Examination assignment hand-in dates INF713 E-Commerce Tuesday, 17 June 2014 (14:00-17:00) Research methodology Friday, 13 June 2014 on/before 16:00 INF714 (compulsory) (no late submissions will be accepted) Managing end-users and INF787 Friday, 20 June 2014 (14:00-17:00) projects INF788 IS Development Tuesday, 24 June 2014 (14:00 17:00) CBT Lab Dept. CBT Lab CBT Lab
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SYLLABI INF713 E-Commerce The analysis of the management, innovation and information systems aspects of the use of e-business technology and strategies. INF714 Research methodology (only for Informatics students) (compulsory)
This compulsory course explains different approaches that can be used for research in Informatics and gives practical advice with respect to carrying out limited research projects. It also assists students in selecting suitable research topics and writing research proposals in preparation for the research paper, which they will write in INF780.
INF788 IS Development
Study and evaluation of different systems development methodologies
KUB780 IT Law
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Introduction to the study of cyber law The place of cyber law in the legal system The nature and scope of cyber law Sources of cyber law Inception and influence of the Internet Regulation of the Internet National/international Jurisdiction Aspects of intellectual property law and the Internet E-commerce activities and the Internet Aspects of jurisdiction and signing of contracts Data protection and encryption Liability of Internet service providers Advertising and the Internet Criminal liability in cyber space Constitutional aspects in cyber space The right to privacy/freedom of expression/information Prerequisite: KRG 110 or BER 210 or BER 310 or BER 410 (passed with at least 50%).
YEARBOOK 2014
Informatics (07240172)
(informatics@up.ac.za) (rhona.vandermerwe@up.ac.za)
Prerequisites for admission to the degree: A Bachelors degree in Information Technology / Informatics with an average mark of at least 60% for the Information Technology / Informatics modules on third year level. (If the candidate does not have a BCom degree, certain basic courses have to be passed before the degree will be awarded.) A candidate with an IT degree other than BCom (Informatics) (e.g. BSc(IT), BIS, BSc(IS)), who meets the requirement of 60% average for his/her IT majors, will be accepted for the BCom Honours Informatics, on condition that he/she has to enroll for and pass the first year, first semester courses in Accounting (FRK111), Business Management (OBS110), Economics (EKN110) and Statistics (STK110), if these subjects were not part of the bachelors degree. It is a requirement of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences that candidates who register in this Faculty should have a basic academic background in these subjects. These additional courses may be done concurrently with the honours courses in Informatics. Summer schools are available in Accounting and Economics. Equivalent courses may also be done through Unisa. All BCom (Hons), MCom and DCom degrees will only be awarded if candidates are in possession of credits for the above-mentioned basic subjects. Candidates must still complete their degrees in the maximum time allowed and will not be given extra time to complete the basic subjects.
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INF714 Research Methodology 714 INF780 Research Paper 780 Elective modules (choose five) INF713 E-Commerce INF715 Enterprise Architecture 715 INF716 IT Service Management INF785 Advanced Database Systems 785 INF787 Managing end-users and projects INF788 IS Development INF790 HCI (Human Computer Inter-action) KUB780 IT Law 780
(15) (30)
INF 714
Any other two honours modules, which have been approved by the Postgraduate Coordinator of the Department of Informatics. Note: OBS 784 (Management of e-Commerce and e-Business) may not be presented for degree purposes. NB: The Department reserves the right not to present a particular module if the specific expertise is not available in the Department in a particular year.
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PLAGIARISM
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines plagiarism as: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
http://www.m-w.com/ [Accessed 03 September 2002] The Encyclopdia Britannica defines plagiarism as: the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one's own. The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracypractices generally in violation of copyright laws. "plagiarism" Encyclopdia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=61807 [Accessed September 3, 2002]. Plagiarism is illegal and you can be expelled from the university if you plagiarise. With all information available on the World Wide Web, it is probably very tempting to cut and paste parts of articles for assignments and so on, but remember that this is illegal and that the lecturers can find the sites very easily themselves.
You may use material written by other people, but then the thing to do is to cite the material:
Guide to Citation Style Guides http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html CITATION STYLES, PLAGIARISM & STYLE MANUALS http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Citations.html
Harvard Style:
An updated version of the EMS document on Harvard referencing is available at: http://www.ais.up.ac.za/eco/referencing.htm References/Bibliography HARVARD STYLE http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html Page 12 of 19
While academic staff must teach you about systems of referencing, and how to avoid plagiarism, you too need to take responsibility for your own academic career. Speak to your lecturer if you are at any stage uncertain as to what is required. Information brochures on this topic are also available at the Academic Information Services.
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REFERENCE IN THE ESSAY BOOK ONE AUTHOR: Shingal (1992: 100) said that BOOK WITH SUBTITLE: According to Halliman (2001: 100-105) BOOK LATER EDITION: "Direct quote" (Rob & Coronel, 2000: 100). BOOK TWO AUTHORS: Paraphrased information (Berson & Smith, 1997: 100, 200, 300). BOOK MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS: Hancox et al. (1990: 100) said: "Direct quote." BOOK ANONYMOUS AUTHOR: In a critical bibliography, Modern historians on British history (1970: 22), it is assumed that BOOK AUTHOR = INSTITUTION: Paraphrased info (University of Pretoria, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, 1987: 4) BOOK AUTHOR = GOVERNMENT: Paraphrased information (South Africa, Department of Constitutional Development, 1993: 100). BOOK CONFERENCE PROCEEDING: Paraphrased information (International scientific symposium, 1989: 100). BOOK COMPILED/EDITED: The meaning of the word prcis is summary or abstract (Concise
REFERENCE IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY SHINGHAL, R. 1992. Formal concepts in artificial intelligence. London: Chapman & Hall. HALLIMAN, C. 2001. Business intelligence using smart techniques: environmental scanning using text mining and competitor analysis using scenarios and manual simulation. Houston, TA: Information Uncover. ROB, P. & CORONEL, C. 2000. Database systems: design, implementation, and management, 4th ed. Cambridge, MA: Course Technology. BERSON, A. & SMITH, S.J. 1997. Data warehousing, data mining, and OLAP. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. HANCOX, P.J., MILLS, W.J. & REID, B.J. 1990. Keyguide to information sources in artificial intelligence / expert systems. Lawrence, KS: Ergosyst. Modern historians on British history: 1485-1945: a critical bibliography. 1970. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. University of Pretoria. Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. 1987. Guidelines for the preparation of assignments. South Africa. Department of Constitutional Development. 1993. Negotiating a democratic South Africa. Pretoria: Government Printer. International scientific symposium (May 9-11,1989: Hamburg, FRG). 1989. Proceedings: Natural language and logic. Edited by R. Studer. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, no. 459.) Concise Oxford dictionary of current English: first edited by H.W. Fowler & F.G. Fowler, 8th ed. Edited by R.E. Allen. 1995. London: BCA. Page 14 of 19
Oxford dictionary of current English, 1995: 937). BOOK TRANSLATED: Paraphrased information (Mayr, 1992: 100). BOOK ANONYMOUS AUTHOR, TRANSLATED: Paraphrased information (Anonymous, 1960: 100). BOOK IN PARTS: Paraphrased information (McDonald, 1968: 100). BOOK PART OF SERIES: Paraphrased information (Sparck Jones & Galliers, 1996: 100). BOOK AUTHORS CONTRIBUTION IN BOOK EDITED BY SOMEONE ELSE: Paraphrased information (Strzalkowski & Perez-Carballo, 1999: 114-115). BOOK, NO DATE: Paraphrased information (Author, s.a..: 100). Paraphrased information (Author, n.d.: 100). Geparafraseerde inligting ... (Outeur, s.j.: 100). BOOK ACADEMIC DISSERTATIONS AND THESES: Paraphrased information (Silvestro, 1984: 100). ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE ONE AUTHOR: Paraphrased information (Hasselhoff, 1975: 98). ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE TWO AUTHORS: Paraphrased information (Varley & Immelman, 1972). ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS: "et al." may be used. ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR: Paraphrased information (Phoenicia, 1958). JOURNAL ARTICLE ONE AUTHOR: Paraphrased information (Pavlov, 1998: 55). JOURNAL ARTICLE TWO AUTHORS: Paraphrased information (Latteux & Thierrion, 1938). JOURNAL ARTICLE MORE THAN TWO AUTHORS: Paraphrased information (Cocklin, Gray & Smit, 1983). JOURNAL ARTICLE ANONYMOUS AUTHOR: Paraphrased information (Administration of technical information groups, 1959: 8).
MAYR, H. 1992. A guide to fossils. Translated by D. Dineley & G. Windsor. Princeton, NJ: University Press. Anonymous. The song of Roland. Translated by F.B. Lanquines. 1960. New York, BY: Macmillan. MCDONALD, L.C. 1968. Western political theory. Part 1: Ancient and medieval. New York, NY: Harcourt. SPARCK JONES, K. & GALLIERS, J.R. 1996. Evaluating natural language processing systems: an analysis and review. Berlin: Springer. (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence, no. 1083.) STRZALKOWSKI, T. & PEREZ-CARBALLO, J. 1999. Evaluating natural language processing techniques in information retrieval. In Natural language information retrieval. Edited by T. Strzalkowski. Dordrecht: Kluwer. p. 113-145. (Text, speech and language technology, 7.) AUTHOR, A.A. s.a. Title. Place: Publisher. AUTHOR, A.A. n.d. Title. Place: Publisher. OUTEUR, A.A. s.j. Titel. Plek: Uitgewer. SILVESTRO, K.C. 1984. Computer knowledge acquisition from natural language explanations. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. (Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Connecticut.) HASSELHOFF, A. 1975. Illuminated manuscripts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 12, p. 95-100. VARLEY, D.H. & IMMELMAN, R.F.M. 1972. Libraries. Standard encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, vol. 6, p. 618.
Phoenicia. 1958. The encyclopaedia Americana, vol. 6, p. 28. PAVLOV, S. 1998. Sofia's choice. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, May/June 1998, vol. 54, no. 3, p. 52-57. LATTEUX, M. & THIERRION, G. 1938. Semi-discrete context free languages. International journal of computer mathematics, March 1938, vol. 8, p. 3. COCKLIN, C., GRAY, E.A. & SMIT, B. 1983. Future urban growth and agricultural land in Ontario. Applied geography, April 1983, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 91. Administration of technical information groups. 1959. Canadian journal of chemistry, January 1959, vol. 30, no. 1, p. 7-14. Page 15 of 19
PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY: Paraphrased information (Henczel, 2000: 211). ELECTRONIC JOURNAL: Paraphrased information (Roberts, 1996).
HENCZEL, S. 2000. The information audit as a first step towards effective knowledge management: an opportunity for the special librarian. Inspel, vol. 34, no. 3/4, p. 210-226. [Online]. Available: http://www.fh-potsdam.de/~IFLA/INSPEL/00-3hesu.pdf [Cited 17 March 2003]. ROBERTS, K. 1996. Early Australian nursing scholarship: the first decade of the AJAN. Part 1: Scholars. The Australian electronic journal of nursing education, vol. 1, no. 1. [Online]. Available: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/nhcp/aejne/archive/vol1-1/ajn1.htm [Cited 17 March 2003]. HEARST, M.A. 1999. Untangling text data mining. Proceedings of ACL99: the 37th Annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics, University of Maryland, June 20-26 (invited paper). [Online]. Available: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/papers/ac199/ac199-tdm.html [Cited 17 March 2003]. PETERSON, C. 1987. Falklanders fear weakening of UK resolve. Pretoria News, 21 January 1987, p. 12. Red-light row: council split over call to set up legalised brothels. 1987. Sunday Times Metro, 1 January 1987, p. 1. SMITH, J.B. 1972. Vertaling as 'n beroep. Fotostaat, Pretoria, Oktober 1972.
NEWSPAPER REPORT/ARTICLE ONE AUTHOR: Paraphrased information (Peterson, 1987). NEWSPAPER REPORT/ARTICLE ANONYMOUS: Paraphrased information (Red-light row, 1987). REPRODUCTION: Paraphrased information (Smith, 1972). CLASS NOTES (usually not acceptable): VIKTOR, H. 2001. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 1. Pretoria: University of Pretoria. Paraphrased information (Viktor, 2001a: 3). (Class notes.) LETTER: ELAZAR, D. 1998. Letter to Walt Crawford, Israel Aircraft Industries, 1 June 1998. Paraphrased information (Elazar, 1998). MICROFORM: CHU, G.C. & SCHRAMM, W. 1967. Learning from television. Bethesda, Md: ERIC Document Paraphrased information (Chu & Schramm, 1967: 100). Reproduction Service, ED 014900. SOUND RECORDING: Mandela, N. 1996. Interview with Max du Preez, SABC, 14 April 1996. Paraphrased information (Mandela, 1996). MORE THAN ONE SOURCE BY ONE AUTHOR, DIFFERENT YEARS: STAIR, R.M. & REYNOLDS, G.W. 1998. Principles of information systems: a managerial approach, 4th Paraphrased information (Stair & Reynolds, 1998: 100). ed. Cambridge, MA: Course Technology. Paraphrased information (Stair & Reynolds, 2001: 100). STAIR, R.M. & REYNOLDS, G.W. 2001. Principles of information systems: a managerial approach, 5th ed. Boston, MA: Course Technology. MORE THAN ONE SOURCE BY ONE AUTHOR, SAME YEAR: VIKTOR, H. 2001a. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 1. Pretoria: University of Pretoria. Paraphrased information (Viktor, 2001a: 3). (Class notes.) Paraphrased information (Viktor, 2001b: 3). VIKTOR, H. 2001b. Data mining and knowledge discovery: class 2. Pretoria: University of Pretoria. (Class notes.) MORE THAN ONE AUTHOR WITH SAME SURNAME: VAN WYK, E. 1972 E. van Wyk (1972: 14) independently reached the same VAN WYK, T. 1970
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viewpoint as T. van Wyk (1970: 3). ONE REFERENCE TO MORE THAN ONE SOURCE: This is in agreement with various other authors (Blake, 1965; Doyle, 1965; Smith, 1966; Zuary, 1967). WEBSITE: Paraphrased information (Ananyan & Kharlamov, n.d.). Paraphrased information (Van Gemert, 2000). E-MAIL: Paraphrased information (Barry, 1995).
ANANYAN, S. & KHARLAMOV, A. n.d. Automated analysis of natural language texts. [Online]. Available: http://www.megaputer.com/tech/wp/tm.php3 [Cited 17 March 2003]. VAN GEMERT, J. 2000. Text mining tools on the internet: an overview. [Online]. Available: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/papers/Gemert00.pdf [Cited 17 March 2003]. THOMSON, B. Virtual reality. Personal e-mail (25 Jan. 1995).
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
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Initials / Voorletters Student Number / Studentenommer Module Code / Modulekode Assignment number / Opdrag nommer Name of Lecturer / Naam van Dosent Date of Submission / Datum ingehandig Declaration / Verklaring: I declare that this assignment, submitted by me, is my own work and that I have referenced all the sources that I have used. / Ek verklaar dat hierdie opdrag wat deur my ingehandig word, my eie werk is en dat ek na al die bronne wat ek gebruik het, verwys het. Signature of Student / Handtekening van student INF :
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Declaration / Verklaring: I declare that this assignment, submitted by us, is our own work and that we have referenced all the sources that we have used. / Ek verklaar dat hierdie opdrag wat deur die groep ingehandig word, die groep se eie werk is en dat ons na al die bronne wat ons gebruik het, verwys het. Signature of Leader / Handtekening van Leier
MARK / PUNT