Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

Competences:
• Solving operations management problems, learning to pursue dierent solution
strategies, exibility, self-organisation, personal initiative and responsibility, capacity
for teamwork, scientic interest
Syllabus:
• Introduction into econometric methods (simple and multiple linear regression methods,
stochastic processes); econometric problems of the least squares method;
forecasting techniques (regression, time series approaches, smoothing methods);
assessment of dierent techniques; aconometric software selected applied problems
• Decision analysis, model-based decision support with focus on mathematical models;
modelling process; simulation versus mathematical models, optimisation models;
measuring productivity and eciency (Data Envelopment Analysis); waiting
line models; network planning and graph theory models; inter-temporal optimisation;
modelling languages (GAMS); stochastic optimisation
Expected Prerequisites: Basic knowledge in analysis, linear algebra, probability theory
and statistics. Applying dierential calculus, convexity, Taylor expansion, partial derivatives,
matrix algebra, working with random variables (normal, Poisson, exponential
distributed)
The contents of the bachelor modules STW/MAT - Mathematik und Theoretische Informatik
and STW/STA - Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie .
Teaching and Learning Methods and Adequate Assessment of Performance: The module
is organized along lectures, illustration by means of examples of use, examples and case
studies students work on, in classroom as well as at home.
Courses of Module:
3.0/2.0 VU Econometrics for Business Informatics
3.0/2.0 VU Model-based Decision Support
Fachübergreifende Qualikationen
ECTS-Credits: 4.5
Summary: Die Lehrveranstaltungen dieses Moduls dienen dem Erwerb fachübergreifender
Qualikationen wie zum Beispiel: Verhandlungsführung, Präsentation- und Kommunikationstechnik,
systematische Recherche und Planung, Koniktmanagement, Teamfähigkeit
und Führung, Organisation und Management, Betriebsgründung und Finanzierung,
Verständnis rechtlicher Rahmenbedinungen, Verbesserung von Fremdsprachenkenntnissen.
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