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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SIE 505 - Formal Foundations for Information Science


Increases student’s understanding of the approach to information systems and science by formalisms.  Draws on mathematics to increase familiarity with formal syntax and language, develops understanding and technical ability in handling  structures relevant to information systems and science.  Includes a review of fundamental material on set theory, functions and relations, graph theory, and logic; examines a variety of algebraic structures; discusses formal languages and the bases of computation.

Prerequisites
Spatial Information Science & Engineering or Information Systems graduate student,  or permission of instructor.

Credits: 3