Course Description The Research Agenda explores the frontiers of knowledge and methodologies to be used for developing the data warehousing technology and for supporting and enhancing the use of this technology in organizations. The main objective for the research  track is to promote and to help developing and implementing the next generation of  DW technology. It is a common complaint that information technology has not won the acceptance of senior decision-makers, and that its productive impact on business has not been as significant as could be the case. One of the reasons for this has been the practice to reduce non-structured problems to well-defined and unambiguous tasks, as this has been a prerequisite for effective systems constructs. The result is a series of simplification, which cause distrust in the support given by the technology. Then it is not surprising that the expected synergy of human decision-makers and computer-based support systems tackling complex problems in interaction has not materialized.
 
Agenda Christer Carlsson
Frontiers in Information Technology 
•  DSS: the New Generation 
•  Hyperknowledge 
•  Intelligent Agents 
•  Neural Nets and Self-Organizing Maps 
•  Fuzzy Logic 
•  Intelligent Systems 

Intelligent Agents 
•  AI and Intelligent Agents 
•  Browsers and BargainFinder Agents 
•  Scanning Agents 
•  DW Feeding Agents 
•  Co-ordinating and Management Agents 
•  Planning Agents 

Data Engine 
•  Signal Processing 
•  Fuzzy Clustering 
•  Fuzzy Rule-based methods 
•  Neural Nets 
•  Neuro-Fuzzy Methods 

 Research Network 
•  DW Design and Implementation  Methodology 
•  Problem Solving and Decision Support 
•  Active Decision Support Systems 
•  Group Support and Team Support    Locally and Globally 
•  Advanced DW Technologies: Fuzzy Logic, Neural Nets, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems 
•  Software Platforms, Development Environments 
•  Strategic Management		 Professor Christer Carlsson has a long academic career in researching IT and its utilization in various forms. Currently he is  a Professor of Business Administration at Åbo Akademi University; tenured since 1985. His research areas are:  
knowledge based systems;  
decision support systems, expert systems; multiple criteria optimization and decision making; fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic; cybernetics and systems research; adaptive control in hierarchical systems structures.  
Professor Carlsson is an internationally renowned researcher. He is a member of various academic editorial boards, groups and task forces. He has a wide collection of publications in his research areas.