Applied Decision Support and Expert Systems ((3))

Catalog description

This course will provide an overview of decision support (DSS) and expert systems (ES) with specific focus on their conceptual models; the inter-relationship between DSS and ES, and their architectures. Specifically, this course will focus on the use of decision support technologies for future executives. A variety of scenarios related to the future of decision support and expert systems technologies will be examined. New technologies from the growing field of applied artificial intelligence (AI) will also be explored. Finally, students will design and implement small-scale decision support and executive information systems using commercial software.