Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

BAE/INE - Information Economics and Social Simulation (6.0 Ects) This module
deals with various important concepts of information in economics and the social
sciences and shows ways to simulate socio-economic systems. In socio-economic systems
heterogeneous individuals interact in networks, which heavily inuence the learning and
decision making processes of these individuals. These micropatterns of behaviour lead to
macrobehaviour of the society, which can be simulated in a realistic way by employing
agent based computational simulation. In the lecture parts of the module important concepts
are introduced and ways to simulate socio-economic systems are presented. In the
project part of the module students employ and deepen this knowledge by working on
and experimenting with computational social simulation models, especially with agent
based models.
BAE/MGT - Management (9.0 Ects) In this module, students are provided with
fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to manage complex socio-technical systems.
This comprises planning and control of generic management processes based on IT support,
human resource management and leadership as well as the management of business
relations in form of negotiations. Besides lectures and nal exams, the courses include
case studies, role plays, teamwork, and take-home exercises.
BIN/BEN - Business Engineering (15.0 Ects) This module deals with designing an
enterprise in an e-business and e-commerce context. This covers the area of analyzing its
performance (business intelligence), understanding the electronic markets and networks
as well as planning and designing activities or the respective systems (e-commerce), modeling
the internal processes and workows (workow modeling), designing new products
and services and innovating products and services. Thus, the module covers all business
engineering aspects from analysis, abstraction, modeling, design, planning up to implementation.
The module is organized along lectures, class room tasks, assignments, and
hands-on exercises (alone or in groups). When appropriate, tools are provided.
BIN/MOS - Modeling and Simulation (6.0 Ects) This module oers a compact
introduction into the art of modeling and into the technique of simulation. Students
learn how to perform a simulation study correctly following all necessary steps from data
acquisition, (mathematical) modeling, implementation, validation, identication, and
result analysis. Dierent modeling techniques (from dierential and dierence equations
via cellular automata to soft computing-based modeling techniques and discrete event
modeling) are compared and appraised with respect to data availability. Using standard
and experimental simulation systems students work on case studies in various application
areas (from economics via production to physics and health care).
FMF/KBS - Knowledge-based Systems (6.0 Ects) This module oers an introduction
into important concepts of knowledge-based systems like problem solving techniques,
formalisms to represent knowledge, and corresponding deduction concepts.
Students acquire systematic knowledge about the fundamental principles underlying
knowledge-based systems, both from a theoretical and from a practical implementation
side. Students continue to train their capabilities to analyze problems, their abilities
to argue and reason correctly in proofs, which result in solutions, and their abilities to
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