Time: M,W 5:00-6:15 Room: 208A Hours: as posted on Door & by appt.

Text: Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, Hans van Vliet, Wiley, 2000

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Description: ISM 4400 Decision Support Systems. 3 Hrs., Prereq: CIS 3040, Coreq: COP 3710. The design, development, implementation, management, and use of decision support systems including concepts of data management, modeling decision support systems, and decision-making.

Goals: Develop conceptual model of DSS environment. Use modeling techniques and tools. Use prototyping tools.

Approximate Calendar

Wk	Topic	Reading	Assignments	Wk	Topic	Reading	Assignments
8/23	Management Support Systems: An Overview	C1		10/18	Knowledge Management	C9
8/30	Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support	C2		10/25	Knowledge-Based DSS Knowledge Acquisition and Validation	C10 C11	TBA
9/6 *9/6	Decision Support Systems: An Overview	C3	TBA	11/1	Knowledge Representation	C12
9/13	Data Warehousing, Access, Analysis, Mining, and Visualization	C4		11/8 *11/11	Inference Techniques	C13	TBA
9/20	Modeling and Analysis	C5	TBA	11/15	Intelligent Systems Development	C13
9/27	Decision Support System Development	C6		11/22 *11/25-6	Neural Computing: Neural Computing Applications,	C15 C16	TBA
10/4	Collaborative DSS Enterprise Decision Support Systems	C7 C8		11/29	TBD
10/11	EXAM 1		Selection	12/6	EXAM 2

Grading: Exams: 40%

Assignments 50%

Participation 10% Includes quizzes (if any) and class attendance, participation, preparedness etc.

FinalGrade = .4*Exam_Avg + .5*Assignment_Avg + .1*ParticipationGrade

Scale: A>= 90, B >= 80, C >= 70, D >=60, F < 60

Basic Policies: By taking this course you agree to the following:

1. Late or missed homework, exams, presentations are zero grades. Only an excuse from the dean is acceptable.[1]

2. Attendance and participation (demeanor, attentiveness, responsiveness, timeliness) are part of your job.

3. Scores on any item may, at the instructor's discretion, be 'curved' due to unforeseen difficulties with the assignments.

4. All work is individual unless specifically noted otherwise. Otherwise it is cheating (see below).

5. Cheating (or abetting cheating) on anything costs not less than zero on the item, nor more than F for the course.

6. You are responsible for any changes to dates, topics or assignments made in class. (I intend the web-site to be up to date.)

7. Your grade will be no worse than as computed above.

8. The participation grade will only be lowered (from 10/10) for clear reason.

[1] Valid professional, academic or scientific excuses may possibly be handled by prior arrangement.

Time: M,W 5:00-6:15 Room: 208A Hours: as posted on Door & by appt.

Approximate Calendar

EXAM 1

EXAM 2