Topics include the Monte Carlo method, random number generation and testing, process generators for probability distributions, simulation languages, simulation modeling, and management considerations in developing simulation models. Expert Systems in Business. Provides students with understanding of expert systems development from application selection through implementation and maintenance. Students gain hands-on experience in using an expert system shell to develop an expert system for a business application. Total Quality Management.
Emphasis is on the design, implementation and management of quality throughout the firm.
COB 191 or equivalent and junior standing. IDS 360 or equivalent is recommended but not required. Emphasis is placed on both batch and on-line file maintenance programming for sequential, indexed and direct file organization, and structured programming principles. The evolution of object-oriented programming is traced from its early implementation to modern languages which include objects. Comparisons between competing systems will be discussed.