IMSC 500 Term Paper

Suggested Topics and guidelines

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Following please find a list of suggested topics. Please choose any of the following topics and write 10+ page
research paper. Your paper must follow APA writing style. Please review APA resources that I have provided on
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Suggested Topics: Choose any of the following topics and

compose a 10+ page research paper.

Fuzzy Logic. Discuss what is it and identify and discuss some applications in IT.

B2B Applications Software, Strategies and tactics, and how it has improved business process.

B2C Application Software, Strategies and tactics, and how it has improved business process.

Medical Software Applications. If you know of any software you can discuss the software and its
capabilities.

Virtual Reality. Discuss what it is and identify and discuss some applications.

Data Warehousing. Discuss what it is, and discuss some applications.

IT Project Management. Discuss reasons for success and failure.

IT Project Management Software. If you know of any IT Project Management Software, you may
discuss features and how it can help to manage projects.

Artificial Intelligent, define what is it and discuss some applications. If you know of any AI software,
you may discuss the software capabilities and application area.

Data Mining, discuss what is it and describe some business applications.

Expert Systems applications in Medical Science.

Expert Systems applications in business.

Enterprise Resource Planning. Define and discuss some applications. If you know of any ERP
software, you may discuss the software capabilities and application areas.

Understanding the Impact of Enterprise Systems on Management Decision Making. Discuss how an
ERP can improve managerial decision making.

Telemedicine: Describe applications, from remote consultation to remote surgery. Benefits, possible
problem areas (privacy, errors, loss of personalized care).

Computerized medical record systems.

Many large HMOs have implemented computerized patient record systems. Report on one or more
such systems, focusing on benefits, privacy risks and protections, how well it is accepted by doctors
and staff, and other relevant issues.

The Global Economy

What are the roles and impacts of computers and communications technology in the increase of transborder economic activity (e.g., eBay as a global garage sale; customer service workers in other
countries handling U.S. consumer calls; databases to track the origin of a cow with Mad Cow Disease;
etc.)? What are the benefits? What are the problems? Is this aspect of increased globalization a good
thing for people in the U.S., for people in other countries, for humanity in general?

Electronic commerce
Implications for the economy, for privacy, etc. Which industries will benefit? Which will be hurt? How
will daily activities be affected? Are there significant social benefits or detriments from electronic
commerce? Taxation implications?

Censorship of the Internet

Some aspect not covered in the text, or study some issue in more detail. Some possibilities: filtering
Internet terminals in libraries, control of the Net in other countries. (For historical background on
libraries: Louise S. Robbins, Censorship and the American Library: The American Library
Association's Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom, 1939-1969, Greenwood Press, 1996.)

Gender or ethnic issues

The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering web site might have some useful
articles for background and ideas for specific projects. There have been several studies of differences in
the way men and women use computers. There are many Web sites aimed at women or at specific
ethnic minority audiences. You could study the differences and similarities between such sites and the
Web in general.

Computing and network access in other countries

For example, how are computers used in rural, poor areas of third world? For example, how do politics
restrict access in Vietnam or Middle East or China? Choose one country to study in depth or compare a
few.