1. ‫أكاديمية الحكومة اإللكترونية الفلسطينية‬
The Palestinian eGovernment Academy
www.egovacademy.ps
Tutorial 1: Data and Business Process Modeling
Session 8 (Practice)
(National Student Registry)
Prof. Mustafa Jarrar
Sina Institute, University of Birzeit
mjarrar@birzeit.edu
www.jarrar.info
Reviewed by
Prof. Marco Ronchetti, Trento University, Italy
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2. About
This tutorial is part of the PalGov project, funded by the TEMPUS IV program of the
Commission of the European Communities, grant agreement 511159-TEMPUS-1-
2010-1-PS-TEMPUS-JPHES. The project website: www.egovacademy.ps
Project Consortium:
Birzeit University, Palestine
University of Trento, Italy
(Coordinator )
Palestine Polytechnic University, Palestine Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Palestine Technical University, Palestine
Université de Savoie, France
Ministry of Telecom and IT, Palestine
University of Namur, Belgium
Ministry of Interior, Palestine
TrueTrust, UK
Ministry of Local Government, Palestine
Coordinator:
Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
Birzeit University, P.O.Box 14- Birzeit, Palestine
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4. Outline
Lecture Lab
Topics
Conceptual Data Modeling
Conceptual Data Modeling -concepts & principles. 1 0
Conceptual Data Modeling using ORM. 1 1
Conceptual Analyses. 2 1
Advanced Integrity and Business rules (Mandatory, Uniqueness, Value,
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Set-Comparison, and Subtype, Frequencies and Ring).
Rules Contradictions and Implication. 2 0
Optimization, transformation, (re) engineering of conceptual models. 2 0
Case study: Model a domain and map into a database. 0 3
Business Process Modeling
Business process - concepts & principles. 1 0
Business process identification. 3 0
Business process modeling and mapping. 7 4
Business process optimization, re-engineering, management . 2 3
Case Study: Model and reengineer 5 services 0 2
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5. Practical Session (National Student Registry)
Description:
The central management of students’ profiles at the ministry of education
is becoming an urgent need in the last years. Many students in Palestine
move from one university to another, and they need to transfer their
academic records. Also, the ministry of higher education needs to certify
the diplomas and mark-sheets of students. Moreover, there is a need to
centrally manage/monitor students financial aids. Therefore, the ministry of
higher education has decided to build a national student registry, such that,
each semester every university has to send the academic record of every
student to the ministry of education. The ministry will then update and
integrate the academic records according to the data combined from all
universities into the national student registry.
To build a modern information system for this national student registry and
to keep the data consistent and well integrated, a good data model needs
to be designed at the conceptual level. Build a conceptual model for
this registry using ORM.
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6. Practical Session (National Student Registry)
• Each two students form a group. Each group must be composed of students
from different universities (in their first level degrees).
• Start brainstorming on a paper to specify what a student record contains
(student, university, faculty, program, course, semester, marks, averages, and
the relationships between such concepts as well as the business rules and
constraints ).
• Students are strongly recommended to use three different mark sheets from
different universities, and to ensure that the resultant conceptual model cover
the relevant exchanged information needed for this national registry.
• After finalizing their conceptual schema, each group will be asked to present
their model to all students, so to collect comments and feedback.
• Then each group will have some time to correct their mistakes, and submit the
final model.
• The final delivery should include the conceptual model in PDF format as well as
the generated database schema.
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