2024/2025

Applied System Analysis

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: School of Software Engineering

When: 2, 3 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Konstantin Y. Degtyarev

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Contact hours: 66

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course 'Applied System Analysis' (рус. Прикладной системный анализ) is offered to students of the Master's degree Program 'System and Software Engineering' (area code 09.04.04) in the School of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. The course is a part of MS curriculum pool of compulsory courses (1st year, Base Clause – Module 'Major'). It is a two-module course (semester A quartile 2 thru semester B quartile 3). In general, system analysis (SA) can be considered as a set of approaches, methods, and techniques aimed at understanding peculiarities of the problematic situation faced by its owner(s), and the development of improving interventions into the problem based on the options (alternatives) generated. As a rule, the causes of the problem are subjective, and they are related to one person or group of persons (stakeholders), his/her (their) perception of reality. Therefore, Applied System Analysis (ASA), i.e. the application of SA as a universal approach to solving problems in different (applied) fields of human activity (engineering, management, economics, to name a few), is based on the concepts of the problem, system, model, alternatives and monitoring (management). Classification of problems as well-defined (very rarely occurring in practice), weakly defined, and ill-defined ones (the latter are more realistic and constantly arising in practice) requires the use of different models (approaches) in each particular situation. This fact has led to the formation of so-called 'hard' and 'soft' system methodologies (SSM) based on formal and informal approaches within the framework of system analysis, respectively.