MIS 611A: Design Science, Analytical, and Computational Research Methodologies

Department of Management Information Systems
The Eller College of Management
The University of Arizona

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Zeng 
Office:     McClelland Hall 430K 
             Phone:  621-4614, E-mail:  zeng@email.arizona.edu 
             Mailbox: McClelland Hall 430 (MIS faculty mailbox)
Office Hours:  M, W 2:00pm--2:40pm
Class Times:  M, W 3:30pm--4:45pm; McClelland Hall 126
Course Website:  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zeng/mis611A/

Assignments

MIS 611A Class Material


DATE TOPIC Notes Readings
Jan 16 Course Introduction slides Samuelson's short autobio, Simon's reflections on research methodology, Patterson's advice on research, Computational thinking
Jan 23 Foundations of Computing slides HMU Automata Book Chapter 1, Math Writing Guideline I, Math Writing Guideline II, Unix Philosophy
Jan 28 Proofs and Set Theory slides Writing Proofs, HarrisStocker Handbook pp.1-4
Jan 30 Set Theory slides Set Theory (a local copy), Axiom of Choices, Order Theory
Feb 4 Induction and Automata slides
Feb 6 Automata slides Writing Sample I, Writing Sample II, Writing Sample III
Feb 11 Regular Expressions slides Writing Sample IV, Writing Sample V, Writing Sample VI
Feb 13 Context-Free Grammars slides Yacc/XML/DTD
Feb 18 Turing Machines slides
Feb 20 Computational Complexity No new notes
Feb 25 Introduction to AI; AI Search slides
Feb 27 Knowledge Representation slides
March 3 AI Planning slides
March 5 Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems slides
March 10 Agent Architecture and Design slides
March 12, 24 Agent Architecture and Design No new notes
March 26 Midterm Exam No new notes
March 31, Apr 2 Multi-Agent Systems No new notes
April 7 Machine Learning and Data Mining slides Data Mining Lecture Notes from Stanford
April 9 Clustering and Classification slides (part 1), slides (part 2)
April 14 HMM, Bayesian Networks, SVM, and Reinforcement Learning slides (part 1), slides (part 2)

Finally, any feedback about the course is welcome. If you have any questions or comments, please talk to me, send me e-mail, or leave a note in my mailbox.

Have an enjoyable and successful semester!