IST 615

Business Intelligence System

Graduate students in other programs are permitted to take this course, MCIS-IS students should complete the preparatory programs before taking the course. Study of areas in which computers can be used as tools in management decision making and evaluation of alternatives. Functional components of a Decision Support System (DSS). Decision models and end-user modeling. User-DSS interfaces. Planning and developing a DSS. Concepts of knowledge-based systems and expert systems. Components of expert systems. Knowledge acquisition. Expert-systems development with a commercial shell. Manipulation of quantified uncertainty factors. Derivation of knowledge from data. Significance of groupware and document-management systems to decision making.

Units: 3.0