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<title>Environmental Decision Support Systems</title>
<cid>PIM-EDSS</cid>
<sapsubmodule>P222-0106</sapsubmodule>
<bkey>pim2</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>4</hours>
<type>V</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>6</cp>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory>nein</mandatory>
<language>Deutsch</language>
<exam>Group project: requirements specification for an EDSS</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>KI869</cid>
<branch>Kommunikationsinformatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>KIM-EDSS</cid>
<branch>Kommunikationsinformatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>MAM.2.1.2.22</cid>
<branch>Engineering und Management</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>PIM-WI65</cid>
<branch>Praktische Informatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>PIM-EDSS</cid>
<branch>Praktische Informatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>PIM-EDSS</cid>
<branch>Praktische Informatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>TIM-EDSS</cid>
<branch>Technische Informatik</branch>
<semester>2</semester>
<mandatory_tag>Wahlpflichtfach</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
Die Präsenzzeit dieses Moduls umfasst bei 15 Semesterwochen 60 Veranstaltungsstunden (= 45 Zeitstunden). Der Gesamtaufwand des Moduls beträgt bei 6 Creditpoints 180 Stunden (30 Stunden/ECTS Punkt). Daher stehen für die Vor- und Nachbereitung der Veranstaltung zusammen mit der Prüfungsvorbereitung 135 Stunden zur Verfügung.
</workload>
<prerequisites>
</prerequisites>
<prerequisitesfor>
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<convenor>Prof. Steven Frysinger</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>sf</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Steven Frysinger</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>sf</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>The students will be able to:
- Explain the natural and social science foundations of environmental decisions;
- Discuss the role of information systems in decision support in general, and environmental decision making in particular;
- Describe the difference between Environmental Management Information Systems and Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSS);
- Explain the value of integrating such technologies as geographic information systems, mathematical process modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, linear programming, and expert systems into an EDSS;
- Describe the theoretical foundations of geographical information systems;
- Compare and contrast vector vs. raster encoding of spatial data layers;
- Develop a user-centered design of an EDSS for a specific decision and decision maker.
</objectives>
<content>Environmental Decision Support Systems are computer systems which help humans make environmental management decisions.

They facilitate &quot;Natural Intelligence&quot; by making information available to the human in a form which maximizes the effectiveness of their cognitive decision processes, and they can take a number of forms. EDSSs are focused on specific problems and decision-makers. 

This sharp contrast with the general-purpose character of such software systems as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is essential in order to put and keep EDSSs in the hands of real decision-makers who have neither the time nor inclination to master the operational complexities of general-purpose systems. 

This course will combine seminars on various topics essential to EDSS design with a practical project in which students will specify the fundamental interaction design and software architecture of a system supporting an environmental decision problem of their choice.</content>
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<offered>
<semshort>SS 2025</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2024</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2023</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2022</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2021</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2020</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2019</semshort>
<semshort>SS 2018</semshort>
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