Intelligent Decision - Intelligent Support

Lectures:
24 h

Recommended for
Graduate students.

The course was last given:
New course.

Goals
To clarify the conceptual basis for decision support systems.

Prerequisites
Graduate status as HMI student. Some knowledge of decision theory will be an advantage.

Organization
The course will take place by means of weekly seminars. Details will be provided later.

Contents
Thematic discussions around the topic of intelligent decisions. Simply put, the issue is whether the aim should be to develop support for intelligent decisions, or to develop intelligent support systems. In other words, should system designers try to amplify human intelligence or to replace it.
This issue will be pursued by thematic discussions centring on the central notions of decision making and joint systems.

Literature
Selected research papers.

Teachers
Erik Hollnagel.

Examiner
Erik Hollnagel.

Schedule
April-June 2000.

Examination
Written essay on a couple of self-selected exam questions or a short term paper in which an existing decision support system is critically scrutinised.

Credit
3 credits

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