Decision Support Systems
Fall 2008

    

Tentative Course Outline

Overview of Decision Support Systems
Decision Making Process
Structuring Decisions
Risk Attitude
Decision Trees
Sensitivity Analysis
Influence Diagrams
Enterprise Information Systems
    Enterprise Resource Planning
    Client Relationship Management
    Supply Chain Management
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Intelligent Decision Support Systems
    Neural Networks
    Classification Trees
    Naive Bayes

Prerequisites:
MTS102: Introduction to Statistics
CSE141: Introduction to Programming
MIS102: Management Information Systems

Text Book
E. Turban, J. Aronson, and T.P. Liang, Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, 2005.

Reference Books
R. Clemen and T. Reilly, Making Hard Decisions with Decision Tools, 2004
P. Goodwin and G. Wright, Decision Analysis for Management Judgment, 2004.

Grading
2 Term Exams                          15 marks each
1 Final Exam                             40 marks
Assignments                             10 marks
Projects                                    10 marks
Quizzes                                     10 marks

Software Tools
Precision Tree / @Risk
GeNIe                         (http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/)
Weka                         (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/)
KNIME                       (http://www.knime.org/)