There are 3 discussion posts that have a 300 word minimum.  This assignment is due no later than Tuesday May 21 @ 5pm EST.  

If you have any additional questions please let me know.

WEEK 8

• Review the main management support systems discussed in Chapter 12 of the textbook. Next, select one (1) such system, and describe its key components, capabilities, and the overall manner in which an organization could benefit from it. Include one (1) example of such application and related benefit(s) to support your response.
• Recommend two (2) strategies for designing a successful management support system for an organization. Provide a rationale to support your response.

WEEK 9

• Use the Internet or the Strayer Library to research articles on expert systems and companies which use them. Next, select two (2) companies that currently use expert systems. Then, discuss the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of using expert systems instead of human expertise within the companies that you have selected. Provide a rationale to support your response.
• Select one (1) of the four (4) categories of intelligent agents, as discussed in Chapter 13 of the textbook, that is currently available. Identify the main risks of using intelligent agents in the category that you have selected. Next, speculate on one (1) way which you would use in order to mitigate the risks in question. Justify your response.

WEEK 10

• Discuss the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of using software as a service (SaaS) within organizations. Next, give your opinion as to why SaaS has become a common delivery model for many business applications.
• According to the textbook, most experts believe that security is a concern when using a cloud computing platform, and users play an important role in its success. Imagine that you have been asked to provide suggestions for an organization that is planning to acquire a cloud computing provider. Select one (1) out of Gartner’s seven (7)cloud-computing security risks, as discussed in Chapter 14 of the textbook, and suggest one (1) way in which you would negative the chosen risk for the organization for which you are working. Justify your response.

Assessment item 3 – Design Phase

Value: 19%

Due Date: 23-Jan-2020

Length: 2000 words

Submission method options: Alternative submission method

TASK

In the third phase of the project, you need to perform following design activities in

continuation of the analysis activities from assignment 2.

1. Design the system architecture, describing the important hardware and software

components (servers, clients etc.) and their role. Justify your design decisions that

involve a choice of technology or choice of software components. It is strongly

recommended to draw one or more architecture diagrams to better illustrate your

designs.

2. Choose two distinct use cases and draw their user interface mockups in the form

of storyboards. You should conform the principles of good UI design as taught in the

subject. Storyboard diagrams should have sufficient details and annotations to give a

clear idea of proposed design.

3. Perform use case realization for two most important use cases from the case

study. Choose two important use cases for the system (from assignment 2) and

elaborate them using interaction diagrams (i.e. sequence diagrams or communication

diagrams).

Maximum word count is 2000, excluding the diagrams.

RATIONALE

This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

• be able to create analysis and design diagrams with UML notation.

• be able to compare the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of UML to determine the

best diagrams for the problem domain.

• be able to model various aspects of systems to construct quality diagrams for use in a

system development project.

PRESENTATION

Assignment should be submitted as a single Word document.

Diagrams can be created using any UML and general drawing tools. All diagrams need to be

included in the report, with a caption and figure number. If needed, use landscape pages for

large diagrams. Hand-drawn diagrams will not be accepted.

REQUIREMENTS

Correct referencing is important for your assignment. Use APA6 for referencing.

Complete Activity 6-1: Using the NBT scan Tool in your book (attached).

• Note:  You will need to select a partner for this activity.  The partner does not have to be a classmate (although that would make it easier on everyone), it can be a co-worker or friend.  Please be sure to identify who your partner was.

• Submit an MS Word document with screenshots of each step.

• Include a 1-2 paragraph summary of the activity.

In this homework, you will do some data analysis using R for the Forest Fire Data described https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/forest+fires (Links to an external site.) The dataset is used to find the relationship between the burned area of forest fires and meteorological data.

Please provide your output only in .HTML format. Do not send the .rmd file.

I have already downloaded the forest fires data and added it to the files section.

https://classroom.ucsc-extension.edu/files/1144259/download?download_frd=1

1. Import the data into R.

• How many observations are there in the dataset?
• How many observations are there with a fire (i.e., area>0)
• How many observations are there with a rain (i.e., rain>0)
• How many observations are there with both a fire and a rain?

 2.Show the columns month, day, area of the all the observations.

 3. Show the columns month, day, area of the observations with a fire.

 4.How large are the five largest fires (i.e., having largest area)

 a.What are the corresponding month, temp, RH,wind, rain area?

 b.Add one column to the data indicating whether a fire occurred for each   observation (True for area >0 and False for area ==0) (Use Mutate function)

5.Create the following to display the outliers from the below vector.

    -plot 

   – boxplot

Also mention the numbers that are outliers in this vector.

(1,2,50,45,67,200,230,55,56,49)

6. Using the dplyr approach, perform the following actions from ‘iris’

  a) select the columns  Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, Petal.Length,Petal.Width

 b) filter the iris data for Species = “setosa” or “virginica”

1.  What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?

2.  Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar?

3.  What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used?

4.  ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode.

Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe com-monalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding.

7.  Go to neuroshell.com. Look at Gee Whiz examples. Comment on the feasibility of achieving the results claimed by the developers of this neural network model.

(go to  neuroshell.com click on the examples and look at the current examples listed, the Gee Whiz example is no longer on the page).