GEO 488/556 Geographic Information Systems Design
Spring 2003

Dr. Douglas M. Flewelling
http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dougf
dougf@geog.buffalo.edu
151 Wilkeson Quad
Office Hours Monday 2:00-3:00 and Wednesday 2:00-2:45

Lecture: M/W 12:30 - 1:20
Studio: M/W 1:20 - 1:50 and by arrangement with Team Members

General Materials

Course Syllabus

Lectures Notes

January 13	January 15	January 20 No Class	January 22
January 27 Team Presentations	January 29	February 3	February 5
February 10	February 12	February 17 Working Session	February 19 Use Case Presentations
February 24	February 26	March 3	March 5
March 10 Spring Break	March 12 Spring Break	March 17	March 19
March 24	March 26	March 31	April 2
April 7	April 9	April 14	April 16
April 21 Team Project Presentations	April 23 Team Project Presentations	April 28 Last Lecture	May 2 Project Reports Due

Readings

Date Assigned	Date Due	Assignment
January 13	January 15	Negroponte - The DNA of Information Rawlins - A Strange New Machine
January 22	February 3	Brooks - The Surgical Team Arlow & Neustadt - Chapters 1 & 2
January 29	February 5	Arlow & Neustadt - Chapters 3 & 4

Textbooks

Required Text

UML and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis & Design
by Jim Arlow and Ila Neistadt. Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Supplimental Texts

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, 1995 edition.

The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch, Jame Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson, Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems by Robert Laurini and Derek Thompson, Academic Press, 1992.

These texts are available through a number of online outlets including: