IL4016 Decision Support Systems Syllabus:

IL4016 Decision Support Systems Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES:

 Summarize managerial role in decision making.
 Articulate insights inthe models used for decision making
 Interpret knowledge management methods
 Relate knowledge acquisition and representation.
 Discover the issues in implementation of decision making systems.

UNIT I DECISION MAKING

Managerial decision making, system modeling and support-preview of the modeling process-phases of decision making process.

UNIT II MODELING AND ANALYSIS

DSS components- Data warehousing, access, analysis, mining and visualization-modeling and analysis-DSS development.

UNIT III KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Group support systems- enterprise DSS- supply chain and DSS-knowledge management methods, technologies and tools.

UNIT IV INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Artificial intelligence and expert systems-concepts, structure, types-knowledge acquisition and validation, knowledge representation, Graphical user interface

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation, integration and impact of management support systems.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

CO1 – Make decisions in the semi structured and unstructured problem situations using systems and semantic networks.
CO2 – Understand various components of DSS and modeling& analysis phases of DSS
CO3 – Understand the concepts of knowledge management methods in DSS
CO4 – Gain knowledge on artificial intelligence systems
CO5 – Implement management support systems

REFERENCES:

1. Efraim Turban and Jay E Aronson, Decision Support and Intelligent Systems, Pearson education Asia, Seventh edition, 2005.
2. Elain Rich and Kevin Knight, Artificial intelligence, TMH, 2006.