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2025/2026

Management Support Systems

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126SYPR Z,ZK 3 2P+1C Czech
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Department of Construction Management and Economics
Synopsis:

This course aims to provide knowledge of standards and tools for management support. The whole course is introduced by topics that aim to explain the basic background of system management support and concepts in this area. The course focuses on process modelling, its relation to the specification of requirements for software systems and the specifics of the application of process modelling in the construction industry - especially in relation to building information modelling.

Requirements:

seminar paper, exam

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Purpose and use of process modelling for description of processes in the construction industry, capability maturity model (CMM)

2. Basic concepts in the field of process modelling and information systems, building information modelling from the perspective of informatics

3. Basics of systems engineering, information systems architecture

4. Basics of process modelling using the BPMN standard

5. Gateways in process diagrams according to the BPMN standard

6. Modeling process collaboration using the BPMN standard

7. Advanced elements of the BPMN standard

8. Using the BPMN standard for modelling processes in construction and facility management

9. Business process modelling using activity diagrams

10. Other methods of process modelling

11. Specifying software application requirements using use case diagrams

12. Describing use cases using structured text and activity diagrams

13. Modeling data object states, information system life cycle, approaches to information system design

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Basic information about the organization for process and information system modeling, organizational structure

2. Process modelling using the BPMN standard

3. Process collaboration diagrams according to BPMN standard, advanced elements of BPMN standard

4. BIM use model using BPMN standard

5. Process modelling using UML activity diagrams

6. Modeling software application use cases according to the UML standard

7. Modeling the states of data objects using state machine diagrams according to the UML standard

Study Objective:

The basis of the course is to gain knowledge of process modelling standards, especially the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard, and the ability to model business processes using this standard. At the basic overview level, attention is also paid to other process modelling standards.

Another aim of the course is to provide basic information about current adaptations and applications of process modelling according to the BPMN standard in the field of construction and facility management, including the field of building information modelling.

Another objective of the course is to gain the ability to specify (especially functional) requirements for software support of processes using the basic standards for specifying functional requirements for software systems.

Study materials:

[1] Humphrey, W. S. (March 1988). „Characterizing the software process: A maturity framework“. IEEE Software. 5 (2): 7379. doi:10.1109/52.2014.

[2] Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Version 2.0, (Object Management Group, Inc., January 2011), available at: http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0 .

[3] J. Messner, C. Anumba, C. Dubler, S. Goodman, C. Kasprzak, R. Kreider, R. Leicht, C. Saluja and N. Zikic, BIM Project Execution Planning Guide, Version 2.2. Computer Integrated Construction Research Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, August, (2019), Available at http://bim.psu.edu.

[4] J. Wix and J. Karlshøj, IDM: Guide to Components and Development Methods, version 1.2, (buildingSMART International, Ltd., 12/2010), available from: https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/information-delivery-manual/ .

[5] Namlı, Ersin & Isikdag, Umit & Kocakaya, Mustafa. (2019). Building Information Management (BIM), A New Approach to Project Management. Journal of Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies. 4. 323-332. 10.29187/jscmt.2019.36.

[6] Hannu Jaakkola and Bernhard Thalheim. (2011) „Architecture-driven modelling methodologies.“ In: Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXII. Anneli Heimbürger et al. (eds). IOS Press. p. 98

[7] „Palette“ section pp. 165 - 176] Bizagi. Bizagi Modeller User Guide, available from: https://download.bizagi.com/docs/modeler/3300/en/Modeler_user_Guide.pdf .

[8] J. Messner, C. Anumba, C. Dubler, S. Goodman, C. Kasprzak, R. Kreider, R. Leicht, C. Saluja and N. Zikic, BIM Project Execution Planning Guide, Version 3.0. Computer Integrated Construction Research Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, (Under Development) Available at http://bim.psu.edu.

[9] IDEF0: Examples http://www.syque.com/quality_tools/toolbook/IDEF0/example.htm

[10] Unhelkar, Bhuvan. Software engineering with UML. Boca Raton: CRC, [2018], ©2018. xxxv, 389 stran. ISBN 978-1-138-29743-2.

[11] About the Unified Modeling Language Specification Version 2.5.1, [2017], Online. Available from: https://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.5.1/About-UML/

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