Decision Support Technology (ISTN416) – 16 credits

This module is optional for fourth year students.

Offered at:  Westville (first semester)

Prerequisite Requirement:  Acceptance into the Honours Programme

Content:  The aim is to provide an understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of decision support technologies.  Topics include: Decision Support Systems Foundations, Design Methodologies for decision support systems, Data Modelling techniques, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Multi-criteria Decision Support Systems, Group Decision Support Systems.

Assessment:  Assignments and/or tests (40%), examination (60%).

For further information, please refer to the College of Law and Management Studies handbook.