BSc CSIT · Semester VIII
Decision Support System and Expert System syllabus
Official TU syllabus for Decision Support System and Expert System (CSC483): 5 units, 64 topics, 3 credit hours. Every unit links to its notes and solved questions.
1
Business Decision Making
10h · 6 Q- Supporting Business Decision Making
- Introduction
- History
- Conceptual Perspective
- Decision Support vs. Transaction Processing System
- Categories of DSS Applications and Products
- DSS Framework
- Building Decision Support Systems
- Gaining Competitive Advantage with Decision Support Systems
- Introduction
- Technology Trends
- Gaining Competitive Advantage
- Examples of Strategic DSS
- Opportunities and IS Planning
- DSS Benefits, Limitations, and Risks
- Resistances to Using DSS
- Business Decision Making Process
- Introduction
- Managerial Decisions
- Decision Making Context
- Decision Making Process
- Good Decision Making
- Redesigning Decision Making Process
2
Designing, Developing, and Evaluating DSS Systems
10h · 6 Q- Designing and Evaluating DSS Systems
- Introduction
- Design and Development Issues
- Decision Oriented Diagnosis
- Prepare a Feasibility Study
- Choose a Development Approach
- DSS Project Management and Participants
- Designing and Evaluating DSS User Interfaces
- Introduction
- Overview of User Interface
- User Interface Styles
- ROMC Design Approach
- Building DSS User Interface
- Comments on Design Elements
- Guidelines of Dialog and UI Design
- Factors of UI Design Success
- DSS Architecture, Networking, and Security Issues
- Introduction
- DSS Architecture and IT Infrastructure
- Networking Issues
- Improving Security for Decision Support Systems
3
Building DSS Systems
10h · 4 Q- Implementing Communication-Driven and Group Decision Support Systems
- Building Data and Document Driven Decision Support Systems
- Building Knowledge Driven Decision Support Systems
- Building Model Driven Decision Support Systems
- Building Web Based and Interorganizational Decision Support Systems
- Evaluating DSS Projects
4
Expert Systems
8h · 4 Q- Definition and Features of Expert Systems
- Architecture and Components of Expert Systems
- Persons Who Interact with Expert Systems
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Expert Systems
- Expert Systems Development Life Cycle
- Error Sources on Expert System Development
5
Fuzzy Expert Systems
7h · 4 Q- Fuzzy Rule
- Fuzzy Reasoning
- Need of Fuzzy Expert Systems
- Operations on Fuzzy Expert Systems
- Fuzzy Inference Systems
- Fuzzy Inference Process
- Types of Fuzzy Expert Systems
- Fuzzy Controller
Textbooks and references
- Daniel J. Power, Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers, Illustrated Edition, Praeger.
- I. Gupta and G. Nagpal, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Mercury Learning & Information, 2020
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