MISY 830 - 09W -- Decision Support and Analysis


Professor:  
  Dr. John H. Wragge  (wraggej@lerner.udel.edu)
 
Where/When Does the Class Meet:
  125 Lerner Hall (LEH)
  Monday & Wednesday evenings
 
Textbook:  
  Decision Support and Business intelligence systems, 8th ed., by Turban, Aronson, Liang & Sharda; (Prentice Hall; 2007)
  ISBN-10: 0131986600 and ISBN-13: 9780131986602
  Note:  An online e-book appears to be available from the publisher at:  http://www.coursesmart.com/0131986635
 
Syllabus:  
  Syllabus (may be tweaked a little)
   
Reading Assignments:
  Click here for the Reading Assignment for Week 1

 

Click here for the Reading Assignment for Week 3 (1/21)

 

Click here for the Reading Assignment for Week 4 (1/26, 28)
  Click here for the Reading Assignments for the term (some adjustments may be made)
   
Written Assignments:

 

Click here for the written assignment due Wednesday, 1/14.

 

Click here for the written assignment due Wednesday, 1/21.

 

Click here for the written assignment due Wednesday, 1/28.

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Click here for the Final Written Assignment due no later than Saturday, 2/7.
   
PowerPoint Slides

 

Click here for the PowerPoint slides for Chapter 18.

 

Click here for the PowerPoint slides for Chapter 11.

 

Click here for the PowerPoint slides for Chapter 17.

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Click here for the PowerPoint slides/links from class on 1-28-09.
   
Excel Worksheets:
  Click here for the Excel worksheets from class
   
Paper Guidelines and Topics:
  Click here for Guidelines for the paper
  Click here for a list of Sample Paper Topics
   
Exsys Corvid (expert system shell):
  Click here to access the Exsys company website
  Click here to download the demo version of Exsys CORVID
  Click here to access the "Getting Started" Quick-Guide

 

Click here to access the Exsys CORVID Assignment

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Audit-1 (Right click and select Save Target As... to save Audit-1.zip which contains the Exsys CORVID files for the Audit example from class
New>>>> Demo (Right click and select Save Target As... to save Demo.zip which contains the Exsys CORVID files for the Demo example in the Quick Start Guide
New>>>> Click here to access a PDF file on how to suppress the showing of intermediate data when showing the result in an Exsys CORVID
   
Online Course Evaluations:

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Students may complete evaluations through midnight of Fri, Feb 6th.  The online course evaluations can be found at the following link (or via UDSIS):
 

 http://www.udel.edu/course-evals

   
Companion Website for Text:
  Click here to visit the Student Website prepared by the publisher
 
Other Resources:
  Click here to see a video interview with Nicholas Carr, author of IT Doesn't Matter
 
Updated:  2/05/09