Email: gosain@scf.usc.edu or FirstClass
Office Hours:
2-4pm, Friday
- Who are we?
- Who am I?
- Who are you?
- Who do you work for? current job title?
- Why did you take this course?
- What do you expect or want to learn from this course?
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- Goal: Understand what and how to support complex decision-making
processes within or across organizations using
information systems.
- Strategy: Emphasize challenges and opportunities for business
process and management support using techniques and tools
compatible with the Internet.
- Tactics:
- Learn by doing: individual and team projects
- Discovery and task-driven knowledge acquisition
- Individual readings and group discussion
- Analysis of case studies and application systems
(e.g., investment support, acquisition support; World Wide Web)
- Other course task assignments
Overall Performance Target: Class GPA of 3.50 +/-
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- Book:
- Decision Support and Expert Systems:
Management Support Systems (4th Edition), E. Turban,
Prentice-Hall, 1995.
- M.4 User Guide, CIMFLEX Tecknowledge,
1993. (Not yet in bookstore, as of 16 Jan 96)
Optional Books:
- The HTML Sourcebook, I. Graham, John Wiley and Sons, 1995
- (select a book on Mosaic/Netscape for PC).
Additional Readings:
- Handout articles to be distributed in class as needed.
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- Module 1: >Overview of Decision Making and
Management Support Systems
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 1,2
- Module 2: Decision Support Systems
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 3
- Module 3: Data Management, Modeling, and Model
Management
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 4,5
- Module 4: User Interface, Multimedia,
and DSS Development
Reading Assignment:
Turban Chapter(s) 6.1-6.10, 7
- Module 5: Enterprise Support Systems
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 8,9,10,11
- Module 6: Knowledge Based DGDSS overview
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 12-17
- Module 7: >Knowledge Based Systems using M4
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 12-17
- Module 8: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 12-17
- Module 9: Knowledge Operationalization
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 12-17
- Module 10: Neural Networks and Associative Analysis
Reading Assignment: Turban Chapter(s) 18-19
- Module 11: Advanced Topics
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- One mid-semester exam (at 20% grade), mid/late February 1996
(e.g., 19 Feb 1996).
- Team Project to be submitted as part of "final exam" at end of semester
(e.g., 30 April 1996).
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- Individual Case Project (30% grade) due March 1996.
- Team Project (40% grade), due end of semester.
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- One mid-semester exam (20% grade),
- Individual Case Project (30% grade)
- Team Project (40% grade)
- Class Participation (10%)
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- You will submit all case and project work in HTML electronically.
- You may use either (a) home computer, (b) computer at work,
or (c) Keck Center PCs to do you case and project work (plus designated
reading assignments) as long as they can access the Internet using
a WWW browser such as Netscape Navigator or Mosaic. Case and
project work content can be created with any software editors
or word processing packages (e.g., Microsoft Word 6.x with Internet
Assistant).
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- Dr. Scacchi:
Office Hours:
3:00-5:30pm Tuesday, BRI-401V.
AND BY APPOINTMENT.
- TBD:
Office Hours:
3:30-5:30pm Thursday.
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- What else should we discuss before the break?
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This interactive presentation
page is maintained by
Walt Scacchi
who can be reached at the e-mail address noted above. This page was last
updated on
15 January 1996.