Course: Information and Knowledge-Based Management

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Course title Information and Knowledge-Based Management
Course code FES/DIZMI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mikulecký Peter, prof. RNDr. CSc.
  • Čapek Jan, prof. Ing. CSc.
Course content
Geographic information systems. Spatial phenomena and features and their modelling. Spatial analyses - definition, history, aims, used metods. Selected methods of spatial analyses (queries, network analyses, topological overlay, geostatistical methods). Visualisation methods.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to reflect the contemporary state of the study field into a student's dissertation thesis supported by his/her own research, to appoint differences between information and knowledge-based management and to summarize the actual development in one of the researching fields.
Student will be able to suitably apply methods of spatial analyses and visualisation methods during solving spatially-oriented tasks.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment

Students have to take part in seminars. They will be required to create and present a seminar work (topics will be provided).
Recommended literature
  • CLARKE, K. C., PARKS, B.O., CRANE, M. P. Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling. Upper Sadle River, 2002.
  • Konecny, Gottfried. Geoinformation : remote sensing, photogrammetry and geographic information systems. London: Taylor & Francis, 2003. ISBN 0-415-23795-5.
  • LONGLEY, P. A. Geographic information systems and science. Chichester, 2001.
  • ROBINSON, A. H. Elements of Cartography. New York, 1995.
  • Slocum, Terry A. Thematic cartography and geovisualization. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education, 2009. ISBN 978-0-13-229834-6.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): Informatics in Public Administration (2014) Category: Economy - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Administration Study plan (Version): - (2014) Category: Economy - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -