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Courses in summer term 2024

Courses in winter term 2023/24

 

    Teaching concept

    Our Chair is offering five different courses in the field of Information Systems Research.

    Of the five, the course “Management of Information Systems” is offered as a compulsory course. This is an introductory course, in which students receive an overview of the basics of information systems. In this course, in which presently more than 500 students attend, a supplementary tutorial will be offered for the students to learn hands-on the basics of programming and databases in the PC pool. 

    Two courses (“Business Intelligence” and “Optimization and Simulation”) are offered as an elective course in the new bachelor's program. As part of the lecture “Optimization and Simulation”, the basics of optimization, based on the programming language R, are discussed as a central theme with a particular focus on linear and integer optimization. The lecture “Business Intelligence” introduces methods for analyzing very large databases. The course “Business Intelligence” is being offered for the first time in the Summer Semester 2013.

    The course, “Computational Economics” is a compulsory subject for the English-speaking master. The main topic of the lecture is to formalize and solve economic problems using analytic or numerical optimization methods. For this purpose, it is crucial to understand the underlying requirements regarding convergence and optimality. The exercises and tutorials explain the practical use of the statistic software R.

    The course "Electronic Markets“ covers electronic markets from the economic and the business perspective. Students are first given an introduction to game theory, which includes one-shot, sequential and Bayesian games. Next, the mechanism design problem is introduced and students learn the challenges regarding participation and incentive compatibility. Finally, the course covers several topics of auction theory, including first-price, second-price and combinatorial auctions.