Functional Model’s Development of the Information System for Data Processing the Publishing Activity of Higher Educational Institutions Teacher

Abstract

The work is devoted to solving the practical problem of developing an information system for data processing regarding the publishing activity of a teacher of a higher education institution. The need to create such a system is caused by the significant expenditure of time and effort on the preparation of reporting documentation on publishing activities, which is required from university departments during the academic year. The designed information system should perform the following functional tasks: planning of publishing activities; constant monitoring of publishing activities; control over the execution of the publication plan; analysis of the results of publishing activities. The principles of system analysis were used to determine the subject area of the information system application. As a result, the main subjects of publishing activity and the distribution of responsibilities between them are determined. Functional modeling methods in IDEF0 and DFD notations were used to develop the structure of the information system. As a result, the decomposition of context diagrams of the publishing activity business process for a teacher of a higher education institution were developed. The main stages of that process were described. The mechanisms for implementation for main stages of publishing activity business process and the list of the regulatory documentation regulating were determined. A feature of the developed functional model is the focus on the publishing activity of a teacher of a higher education institution and the analysis of this activity results within the structural unit of a higher education institution. In the course of the work, it was found that the basic information flow is data about a specific publication, due to the fact that one publication can have many authors. And the basic output information flow is data on the publication activity of a particular teacher. Using these data, it is possible to conduct an analysis of the publishing activity of a structural division of a higher education institution, that is, a department. The developed functional model of the information system to support the publishing activity of a teacher of a higher education institution will allow to develop the tuple model of this system and the structure of the database.