Decision Support Systems & Intelligent Systems 6th Ed.

Description: For courses in Decision Support Systems, Computerized Decision Making, and Management Support Systems. Widely hailed for its contemporary and comprehensive approach, this cutting-edge, student-friendly text covers the latest decision support theories and practices used by managers and organizations. The theme throughout is "enterprise decision support, the web, and the role of knowledge management."



Contents: I. DECISION MAKING AND COMPUTERIZED SUPPORT. 1. Management Support Systems: An Overview. 2. Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support. II. DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS. 3. Decision Support Systems: An Overview. 4. Data Warehousing, Access, Analysis, Mining, and Visualization. 5. Modeling and Analysis. 6. Decision Support System Development. III. COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, ENTERPRISE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT. 7. Collaborative Computing Technologies: Group Support Systems. 8. Enterprise Decision Support Systems. 9 Knowledge Management. IV. FUNDAMENTALS OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS. 10. Knowledge-Based Decision Support: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. 11. Knowledge Acquisition and Validation. 12. Knowledge Representation. 13. Inference Techniques. 14. Intelligent Systems Development. V. ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS. 15. Neural Computing: The Basics. 16. Neural Computing Applications, and Advanced Artificial Intelligent Systems and Applications. 17. Intelligent Software Agents and Creativity. VI. IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION, AND IMPACTS. 18. Implementing and Integrating Management Support Systems. 19. Organizational and Societal Impacts of Management Support Systems. Glossary. References. Index.