An Investigation of Expert Systems’ Impacts on the Management Information Systems Discipline

Abstract

AbstractSince the introduction of electronic data processing systems (EDP) in the early 1960s, computer based information systems have gone through tremendous development in capability and design. In recent years, one advanced type of information system, expert systems (ES), made its appearance and is evolving at a steadily increasing pace, not only in concept development, but also in practical applications. This introduction of ES concepts and their successful applications creates two interesting situations. First, it creates a new research area in the field of business information systems, and second, it results in some challenges to the course content of existing management information systems (MIS) courses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss ES’ impacts on MIS discipline such as systems analysis and design, data base, computer graphics, application programming, and general system theory (including MIS or decision support systems).