Decision Support Systems

During his existence, companies based on their own experience have learn that the separation of operational systems requisites and functionalities from decision support ones it was the better policy and practice to follow in the improvement of their decision making abilities. Thus, it is not a big surprise to see that some of them have implemented effective decision support systems developing, step by step, a corporative data warehouse complemented, when necessary, with on-line analytical processing and data mining mechanisms. The implementation of a data warehousing system provides an efficient mean to store high level quality information, organizing it accordingly decision making agents’ perspectives, and offering, as well, advanced resources to explore it dynamically. The Decision Support Systems (DSS) curricular unit was especially designed to deal with such kind of systems, and organized accordingly with the Bologna recommendations for the 2nd cycle. It pretends to provide students with knowledge and skills to plan, design, implement, and manage a decision support system project for real-world application. All technological and scientific topics approached here are explored based on the implementation of data warehousing systems (the unit’s kernel) and its consequent exploitation through conventional means of database querying and reporting, on-line analytical processing mechanisms, or data mining components.

Scientific Coordination

• Orlando Belo
• Luís Amaral
• Paulo Azevedo
• Maribel Santos

Learning Outcomes

• Advanced Administration of Database Management Systems.
• Database Management Systems Monitoring and Tuning.
• Data Warehousing Project, Management and Implementation.
• Design and Implementation of ETL Mechanisms.
• OLAP Systems and Applications.
• Data Mining Systems and Applications.

Contents

• Advanced Administration and Exploitation of Database Systems (5 ECTS)
• Data Warehousing Systems (5 ECTS)
• On-Line Analytical Processing (5 ECTS)
• Data Mining (5 ECTS)
• Integrated Project (10 ECTS)

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Sponsors

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