This course aims to widen students' understanding and enhance their modeling skills on how conceptualize and engineer data, business rules, and business processes. The first module focuses on (i) Conceptual data modeling: conceptual analyses using Object Role Modelling ORM, business rules, integrity and derivation rules, contradictions and implications between rules, conceptual schema optimization and engineering, business rules verbalization. The second module focuses on (ii) Business Process Management: Concepts and principles, modeling notations and languages, process identification, optimization and (re-)engineering, and Process implementation.

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