Decision Support and Intelligent Systems

Description

An overview of management support systems. Decision-making systems modeling and support. DSS. Modeling and analysis. Business intelligence. Decision support systems development. Group decision support systems (GDSS). Knowledge-based decision support. Inference techniques. Expert systems development. Statistical decision making. Neural networks and DSS applications. Genetic algorithms for DSS. Intelligent software and DSS agents.

Program

Master of Computing in Information Systems

Objectives

• The student should be:
  • Acquainted with the basic concepts of management support systems.
  • Trained on how to use DSS to enhance the management decision making process.
  • Introduced to intelligent systems’ technology e.g. Neural Network Systems, Genetic Algorithms, and Fuzzy logic and their DSS applications.• Acquainted with the use of major methodologies of developing decision support systems to suit organizational needs.