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| code | IS701 |
| credit_hours | 3 |
| title | Decision Support and Intelligent Systems |
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| prequisites | none |
| credit hours | 3 |
| Description/Outcomes | 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. |
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| 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. |
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| ref. books | • Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson, (2005), Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, 7th edition, Prentice-Hall, Inc.• Additional Resources:• Decision Support Systems Journal.• Management Science Journal.• Communications of the ACM.• MIS Quarterly.• Artificial Intelligence Journal.• Operations Research.• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.• European Journal of Operational Research.• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.• IEEE Computer.• Journal of the ACM.• Information and Management. |
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