Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Chapter 9, Software, Programming, and Artificial Intelligence

Software Products

Information Week's Most Important Products of 98

The Dec. 14, 1998 issue of InformationWeek provides brief descriptions of "the most important products of 1998." These include: enterprise application integration software, teamware, enterprise javabeans, SQL server 7.0, NetWare 5, Customer management applications, midmarket ERP, and transaction management. It also mentions "runners-up."

Object-Oriented Programming

ITM Web: Object-Oriented Resources

Links to numerous OOP-related sources.
Tutorial on Object Oriented Systems Analysis
This hypertext tutorial presents a different, but very important starting point for thinking about systems.

CASE

Method Engineering Encyclopedia

This site from the Netherlands illustrates a wide range of systems analysis and design tools. Many variants of object-oriented techniques are included.
ITM Web: CASE tools
Links to many CASE tool sites, including sites providing free downloads of sample programs.

Java

The Source for Java Technology

This site at Sun highlights many different uses of Java.

Spreadsheets

DSS Spreadsheet Links

This site contains spreadsheet tips, instructional materials, and links to general sites and product sites.
The Spreadsheet Page
A commercial site covering the history of spreadsheets and tips about current spreadsheet programs.

Operating Systems

Infoseek: Operating systems topics

This site on Infoseek contains categories for all major operating systems and numerous links for each system.
WinFiles.com - All Windows Information Page
This site contains information on system requirements and installation; bug fixes, updates, enhancements and add-ons from Microsoft; third-party utilities for system maintenance, recovery and enhancement; links to other pages, software sites and articles.
Mac OS
Official site defines the OS and gives updates on product releases and developments.
Linux Online
This web site links to a number of sites devoted to the Linux operating system.
The Linux Center
This site provides an index of Web pages about the Linux operating system, its applications, and free software in general.
OS News
This site is a collection of news articles related to all aspects of OS.

Artificial Intelligence

PC AI's Site

This site contains numerous links to AI topics and vendors.
Artificial Intelligence Resources
This site from the University of Reading in the UK contains a large number of links, including several to demo programs available on the Web.
Artificial Intelligence links
A site from the University of Exeter in the UK
Artificial Intelligence links
This site contains links to AI journals and to a number of organizations that do research in artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence Resources
This site includes links to AI topics and AI companies
Introductory tutorial on AI
Accounting Expert Systems Applications
Artificial Intelligence in Business
Links to an extensive list of expert systems used in accounting
A brief course in Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control
This includes a list of applications of fuzzy control
Intelligent Software Agents
This site produced by Sverker Janson of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, provides a large number of links for researchers but also contains some readings that explain different views of what intellgent agents are or might be.

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