1Decision Systems Design BCIS 4660 Spring 2006 Classroom: CURY 203, W 2:00 – 4:50 pm Instructor: Dr. Nick Evangelopoulos Office: BUSI 302G Telephone: Office: (940) 565-3056 E-mail: [email protected] (preferred way to contact me) OFFICE HOURS MW 1:00-2:00 PM; and by appointment REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS 1. Pratt and Adamski, Concepts of Database Management, 5 th Edition, Course Technology, 2005 2. Marakas, George, Modern Data Warehousing, Mining, and Visualization, Prentice Hall, 2003. OPTIONAL TEXTBOOK 3. Adamson and Venerable, Data Warehouse Design Solutions, Wiley, 1998. COURSE WEB SITE http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/faculty/evangelopoulos/bcis4660/ COURSE PREREQUISITES BCIS 3610, ACCT 2010 and ACCT 2020 with grades of C or better; CSCIS 1110 or equivalent (BCIS 2610); MSCI/DSCI 3710 or 3870; 2.7 GPA. Grades of C or better in each previously taken BCIS and MSCI/DSCI course, or consent of department. COURSE DESCRIPTION & PURPOSE This course investigates model-based approaches to the design of decision systems for business and industry. This includes exploring techniques for data management such as data warehousing, data mining, and data visualization for decision-making in management, management science and accounting. Emphasis will be placed upon data mining techniques for financial auditing. This course is intended primarily for Accounting majors.2GRADING Quizzes 7% 35 points Midterm Exam 24% 120 points Final Examination 26% 130 points Projects and Homework 43% 215 points Totals 100% 500 points Most course grades will be posted on the Web. Incomplete grades will not be given. You are to check your posted grades at least once a week. You will have one week to ask for a correction to a posted grade and after that period of time the grade will not be changed. This includes quiz grades. Final course grades will be based on total points accumulated and the subjective judgment by the instructor of your performance in this class. Final grades will not be posted. Course Datasets Several course datasets (Premiere Products and Henry Books) may be found at: http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/faculty/evangelopoulos/bcis4660/ COURSE PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS Subject Matter The content of this course will be found in selected chapters in the required texts, lectures, notes, Power Point presentations, assigned readings, and the application of various software packages. Some of the content is published in .doc (Word) or .pdf (Adobe) format. If you are working at home and do not have Adobe Acrobat on your machine you may download it from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html Class Participation Class discussion, topic reports, summarized articles, etc. Examinations The exams will be closed-book. Quizzes will be open or closed book at the instructor’s discretion. Early or late final exams will not be given. Late quizzes will not be given. Make-up exams will not be given. Final examination will be comprehensive of all subject matter.Page 3 of 7 Homework, Projects, and/or Assignments Problems, cases, and readings will be assigned to support and supplement course subject matter. Each assignment which you turn in must have a cover page containing the following information which is typed and centered on the page: your name (“Fname Lname” or “Lname, Fname”), the assignment number, the due date for the assignment, the topic of the assignment, Text Title (if any), Chapter (if any) and page number (if any). For some assignments, late submissions may be accepted for 50% credit (requires consent of the instructor, individual assignments only). All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the date due. All assignments must reflect your original work. Team assignments will include a team member evaluation sheet, which each team member must complete. Disability Accommodation The College of Business Administration complies with the American with Disabilities Act in making reasonable accommodation for qualified students with disability. If you have an established disability as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act you are encouraged to request accommodation from the Disability Accommodation Office, Union Building. Attendance Regular and punctual attendance is essential for this course. While attendance will not be taken, Pop quizzes will be given throughout the semester. If you are not present, you cannot retake the quiz. Missed Classes The student is responsible for obtaining material, which has been distributed in class including assignments and assigned readings. Make a friend in the class and use him/her as your source for missed materials. Course Communications All students are encouraged to use e-mail for all communication with Dr. Evangelopoulos or questions about class or assignments. Course and assignment information will also be posted on the Web, at http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/faculty/evangelopoulos/bcis4660/. Please, check this Web site regularly, and at least once each week!Page 4 of 7 ETHICAL BEHAVIOR IN BCIS CLASSES The ITDS Department expects its students to behave at all times in an ethical and legal manner. There are at least two reasons for this. First, ethical behavior affirms the personal value and worth of the individual. Second, both IT and Decision Sciences professionals frequently handle confidential information on behalf of their employers and clients. Thus employers of BCIS and DSCI graduates, as well as other Business majors (accounting etc.) expect ethical conduct from their employees because that behavior is crucial to the success of the organization. Academic dishonesty is a major violation of ethical and legal behavior. The ITDS Department defines academic dishonesty as claiming the work of others as your own, or using illegal or unapproved means to raise your grade in a class. Examples include: copying answers from another person’s paper; using unapproved notes during an exam; copying computer code from another person’s work; having someone else complete your assignments or take tests on your behalf; stealing code printouts, software, or exams; recycling assignments submitted by others in prior or current semesters as your own; and copying the words or ideas of others from books, articles, reports, presentations, etc. for use as your own thoughts without proper attribution (i.e., plagiarism). It does not matter whether you received permission from the owner of the