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Course Catalog 1999/2000


Business Adm and Social Science

IEI309 ISS CI - Modelling and Decision Systems 15.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q III

LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Faramarz Agahi Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
Grade Pass in Informatics and System Science A and B, 20 points, or equivalent courses to be approved by the examiner. Grade Pass in Basic Statistics.

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to give the student understanding of
- the process of management desicion making and the different levels of information that are
required
- the different modelling techniques and how to incorporate them into information systems that
support managerial decisions.

CONTENTS
The course includes
- managerial decision making framwork (operational and meta-systemic decisions;
establishing a mission and objectives; planning)
- normative and determinative foundations for management decision making
- integrating ethics and norms into decision making
- quantiative techniques: regression analysis, simulation, their application to planing and
decision models
- computer systems for desicion making (databases, analytical and modelling modules and
user interface)

TEACHING
Lectures, tutorials/worhshops.

EXAMINATION
Application paper and a written exam.
Fail, Pass, Pass with Distinction
COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, G, VG

ITEMS/CREDITS
Final exam 7.50ECTS
Projekt work 7.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
To be announced later.
Additional literature will be provided during the course.

Valid for the academic year 1999/2000.

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