Description:

Introduction to system sciences, system viewpoint, terminology, typical system analysis tasks, system identification, system interface and interface tasks, processes, system behaviour and its analysis, strong functions and processes, genetic code, system identity, system architecture. Tools for system analysis - Petri nets, decision tables, algorithms for structural tasks. Soft and hard systems, methods for soft system analysis.

Recommended literature:

Votruba, Kalika, Kaliková. Systémová analýza. Skripta ČVUT, 2. vydání, 2008
Dudorkin J.: Systémové inženýrství a rozhodování, Praha, ČVUT, 1995

Keywords:

system, systems analysis, identification, interface, process, behaviour, architecture, identity, hard system, soft system, decomposition, integration, Petri nets, decision tables

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar