•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

184 prospectus udine
house Toolkit: the Complete Guide to
Dimensional Modeling, Hoepli, 2002 (in
English).
- J. HAN, M. KAMBR, Data Mining, Morgan
Kaufman, 2001 (in English).
- I.H. WITTEN, E. FRANK, Data Mining,
Elsevier, 2005 (in English).
Teaching method and examination
16 two-hour lessons; development of a
project in small groups; individual final
oral examination.
DATABASE
Prof. Angelo Montanari
Contents
The course aims at acquainting the students
with the basic concepts, methodologies,
and tools developed in the area of
database systems. Special attention will
be devoted to conceptual and logical data
models and to database languages for
data definition, update and query processing.
Moreover, we will introduce the
basic techniques and methodologies for
conceptual design (synthesis of
Entity/Relationship schemas) and logical
design (translation of Entity/Relationship
schemas into relational schemas) of databases.
Bibliography
Course textbook
- P. ATZENI, S. CERI, S. PARABOSCHI, R.
TORLONE, Basi di dati. Modelli e linguaggi
di interrogazione, second edition,
McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Further reading
- R. ELMASTRI, S. NAVATHE, Sistemi di basi
di dati. Fondamenti, forth edition, Pearson
/ Addison-Wesley, 2004.
- R. VAN DER LANS, Introduzione a SQL,
second italian edition, Addison-Wesley,
2001.
DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS
Prof. Alessio Fornasin
Contents
Demographic phenomena have complex
reciprocal relationships which determine
the population’s growth patterns and its
structural transformations, creating a
demographic system. The course will
introduce the main models that are
endogenous to the demographic system.
Some elementary models of population
development in the presence of economic,
resource and environmental constraints
will be illustrated. A large amount
of time will be dedicated to the theoretical
paradigms underlying the various models,
and to their empirical application.
Particular attention will be given to forecast
models and to survival analysis. Practical
lessons using the principal demographic
software have been scheduled in
the IT room.
Bibliography
Class notes and textbooks will be recommended
during the course.
DYNAMICAL METHODS
FOR ECONOMICS 1
Prof. Alfredo Medio
Aims
The main purpose of this course is to
acquaint the students with the systematic
analysis of dynamical models in economics,
including the use of computational
and graphical methods.
Contents
In Part 1, the lecturer will introduce some
fundamental concepts of dynamical system
theory, making use of simple models
in discrete time, represented mathematically
by systems of one or two difference
equations. The different types of dynamical
behaviour of those systems (e.g., fixed