Decision Support Systems: International Edition - Softcover

Marakas, George M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013122848X ISBN 13: 9780131228481

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For a Decision Support System course offered in business schools.

Packed with essential information, highly current text provides a thorough understanding of the support aspect of DSS. Written from cognitive processes and decision-making perspective, it concentrates on issues that emphasize managerial applications and the implications of decision support technology on those issues and includes commercial data mining software for experiential learning.

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Students will...
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Data warehousing, data mining and visualization, and intelligent agent technology.The Megaputer software suite represents the leading edge in data mining and visualization applications and is being distributed exclusively with this textbook. Real-world data sets are used in both the tutorials and for many of the Megaputer exercises included at the end of relevant chapters. Students will use the Megaputer software in conjunction with exercises from this text to associate, classify, predict, and acquire knowledge from numerical and structured data.
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The expertise gained from Marakas's Decision Support Systems in the 21st Century, Second Edition, and the Megaputer software as they enter the workforce to make informed managerial decisions with knowledge extracted from data mining and warehousing technologies. New to the Second Edition
Three completely new chapters covering topics related to intelligent software agents, DSS system development, and building data warehouses.
State-of-the-art DSS design and implementation coverage giving this edition a greater technical focus than its first edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 013122848X
• ISBN 13: 9780131228481
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 640