Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems
Author: Efraim Turban
Widely hailed for its contemporary, cutting-edge perspective, this comprehensive, reader-friendly text covers the latest decision support theories and practices used by managers and organizations. Current examples and cases are drawn from actual organizations and firms. Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support. Data Warehousing, Access, Analysis, Mining, and Visualization. Modeling and Analysis. Decision Support System Development. Collaborative Computing Technologies: Group Support Systems. Enterprise Decision Support Systems. Knowledge Management. Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. Knowledge Acquisition and Validation. Knowledge Representation. Inference Techniques. Intelligent Systems Development. Neural Computing Applications, and Advanced Artificial Intelligent Systems and Applications. Intelligent Software Agents and Creativity. Implementing and Integrating Management Support Systems. Organizational and Societal Impacts of Management Support Systems. For managers interested in Decision Support Systems, Computerized Decision Making, and Management Support Systems.
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Presents the fundamental techniques of the construction and use of management support systems. The authors discuss the basic aspects and applications of decision and group decision support systems, expert systems, neural computing, intelligent agents , and other intelligence systems. They include numerous Internet exercises. The course presented in this text covers the decision support and artificial intelligence components of the Information Systems '97 Model Curriculum for Information Systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Table of Contents:
| Pt. 1 | Decision Making and Computerized Support | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Management Support Systems: An Overview | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Decision Making, Systems, Modeling, and Support | 32 |
| Pt. 2 | Decision Support Systems | 71 |
| Ch. 3 | Decision Support Systems: An Overview | 73 |
| Ch. 4 | Data Management: Warehousing, Access, and Visualization | 108 |
| Ch. 5 | Modeling and Analysis | 145 |
| Ch. 6 | Knowledge-based Decision Support and Artificial Intelligence | 197 |
| Ch. 7 | User Interface and Decision Visualization Applications | 227 |
| Ch. 8 | Constructing a Decision Support System and DSS Research | 266 |
| Pt. 3 | Collaboration, Communication, and Enterprise Support Systems | 297 |
| Ch. 9 | Networked Decision Support: The Internet, intranets, and Collaborative Technologies | 299 |
| Ch. 10 | Group Decision Support Systems | 348 |
| Ch. 11 | Executive Information and Support Systems | 386 |
| Pt. 4 | Fundamentals of Expert Systems and Intelligent Systems | 437 |
| Ch. 12 | Fundamentals of Expert Systems | 439 |
| Ch. 13 | Knowledge Acquisition and Validation | 482 |
| Ch. 14 | Knowledge Representation | 533 |
| Ch. 15 | Inferences, Explanations, and Uncertainty | 558 |
| Ch. 16 | Building Expert Systems: Process and Tools | 602 |
| Pt. 5 | Cutting-Edge Decision Support Technologies | 647 |
| Ch. 17 | Neural Computing: The Basics | 649 |
| Ch. 18 | Neural Computing Applications, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, and Hybrid Intelligent Systems | 685 |
| Ch. 19 | Intelligent Agents and Creativity | 720 |
| Ch. 20 | Implementing and Integrating Management Support Systems | 763 |
| Ch. 21 | Organizational and Societal Impacts of Management Support Systems | 810 |
| App. A | Student Project: Frazee Paint, Inc.: An Example of a Student-Developed DSS | 847 |
| Glossary | 853 | |
| Index | 873 |
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The New Competition: Institutions of Industrial Restructuring
Author: Michael Best
This book posits a strategic tension between market competition and cooperation in successful industrial societies. The author envisions a new role for national industrial policy.
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Yet another diagnosis and suggested treatment for ailing US industry. Best (economics, U. of Massachusetts) says competition must be in product design rather than in pricing, and this requires an increase in the flexibility of organizational structure and in the cooperation with suppliers and customers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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