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Course Code: 
ACM 462
Course Period: 
Autumn
Course Type: 
Area Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
6
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Course Objectives: 
Rational decision-making and appropriate information support, decision support systems (DSS) components, data, information, databases, database management systems, knowledge bases, data warehouses, the rule / model databases, expert systems, mechanisms and factors of uncertainty, system dynamics and simulation , group DSS, executive information systems, user interface components, recognition and DSS design, implementation and evaluation.
Course Content: 

This course covers the following topics: Rational decision making and appropriate data support, components of Decision Support Systems (DSS): data, information, databases, database management systems, knowledgebase, data warehouses, Rulebase/ModelBase. Expert systems mechanism and certainty factors, system dynamics and simulation, group DSS, executive information systems, user-interface components. Designing, implementation and evaluation of DSS.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 4: Lab Work
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, B: Presentation C: Homework D: Project E: Laboratory

Vertical Tabs

Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes 

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Has a knowledge of the concept of decision support and decision-making.

7,8

1,2,3

A,B,C

Learn the components of the decision support system.

7,8

1,2,3

A,B,C

Knows about database management systems and data warehouses.

7,8

1,2,3

A,C

Knows about management information systems and simulation.

7,8

1,2,3

A,C

Learn how to design a decision support system.

7,8

1,2,3

A,C
 
 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Decision concepts and decision making.

 

2

Components of the decision support systems.

 

3

Database management systems.

 

4

Data warehouses.

 

5

Expert systems.

 

6

Rules/model bases.

 

7

Uncertainty factors

 

8

MIDTERM

 

9

System dynamics and simulation.

 

10

Group decision support systems.

 

11

Management information systems.

 

12

Design a decision support system.

 

13

Implementation of a decision support system.

 

14

Presentations

 

15

FİNAL

 
 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, Efraim TURBAN, Jay E. ARANSON, , Pearson Education, 9. Edition

Additional Resources

 DATABASE SYSTEMS, Thomas CONNOLLY-Carolyn BEGG, Pearson Education, 4. Edition
 
 

Material Sharing

Documents

 

Assignments

 

Exams

 
 
 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-term

1

70

Project

1

20

Homework

1

10

Total

 

100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

 

40

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

60

Total

 

100
 

 

COURSE CATEGORY

Expertise/Field Courses
 
 

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

1

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop the complete systems for multi-media visual user interface.

 

 

X

 

 

2

Information Systems graduates have advanced the knowledge and skills to design, develop and install the application systems for multi-media.

 

X

 

 

 

3

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design, develop and apply algorithms and data structures to solve the basic problems of information processing, within the framework of discrete mathematics.

X

 

 

 

 

4

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern structured development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage.

 

 

 

x

 

5

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop computer applications, based on user specificed requirements, using modern object-oriented development tools and install them on various hardware platforms and deploy their usage.

 

x

 

 

 

6

Information Systems graduates know the logic of computer operating systems, the basic set of system commands, how to control access to system resources by users of different departments and how to monitor the running of jobs in the system.

x

 

 

 

 

7

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop data models serving different requirements, database applications that would access and process data using various types of software, including queries, reports and business applications.

 

 

 

 

x

8

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop business applications that would provide data acess, modification and processing for data kept in enterprise database systems.

 

 

 

 

x

9

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge about computer networks, and have  the skills to design,  develop and monitor  computer networks, how to configure them  and how to maintain their performance.

 

x

 

 

 

10

Information Systems graduates have the knowledge and the skills to design and develop visual user interfaces for the web, web-based applications for n-tier client/server configurations, how to deploy them in enterprises.

 

x

 

 

 
 
 

ECTS

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)

15

3

45

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

15

3

45

Mid-term

1

9

9

Project

1

9

9

Homework

3

6

18

Presentation

1

3

3

Final examination

1

9

9

Total Work Load

 

 

138

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

5.52

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

6
 
 
None
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