This is a course in independent reading for graduate students, and is supervised by a member of the Information Systems Management faculty. The purpose of this course is to give students the opportunity to study a topic of interest which is not available from the existing course offerings. The approval of the Director of Graduate Programs is required before the student registers. This course may be repeated for credit. 3 Properties required of expert systems for use in a variety of fields are examined by this course.
Attention is given to the special use of denote logic and other logic's.
Axiom systems and natural language applications to these problem domains are explored. The formal principles which govern decision support systems are examined in this course. Relationships among system design, system analysis, system testing, and organizational requirements are studied. Data requirements, analyses and evaluation provided, outputs generated, and user interfaces. Topics include forecasting methodologies, decision theory, mathematical programming, networks, operations management, and simulation.