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- Decision Support System
- a computer system designed to collect, store, process, and provide access to information to support managerial decision making. Decision support systems were developed in the 1970s to facilitate unstructured and...
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- A GIS-Based Decision Support System For Brownfield Redevelopment
- Rapid growth in regions surrounding large metropolitan areas leads to the phenomenon of urban sprawl. In states like Michigan, land is being converted at a rate seven times greater than formerly used and potentially contaminated sites are being redeveloped. City governments now see these unused or abandoned areas as important...
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- Automation And Accountability In Decision Support System Interface Design
- When the human element is introduced into decision support system design, entirely new layers of social and ethical issues emerge but are not always recognized as such. This paper discusses those ethical and social impact issues specific to decision support systems and highlights areas that interface designers should consider during...
- White papers 2006-10-04
- Towards Conceptual Multidimensional Design In Decision Support Systems
- Multidimensional databases support efficiently On-Line Analytical Processing OLAP. In this paper, we depict a model dedicated to multidimensional databases. The approach we present designs decisional information through a constellation of facts and dimensions. Each dimension is possibly shared between several facts and it is organised according to multiple hierarchies. In...
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- A Survey Of Agent-Based Intelligent Decision Support Systems To Support Clinical Management And Research
- The research into agent-based intelligent decision support systems is important to the medical industry because these systems can be used to improve the quality of healthcare in many ways. This paper is a survey of the current research into agent-based intelligent decision support systems to support Clinical Management and Research,...
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Designing Usable Decision Support Systems For HVM
- In High Volume Manufacturing HVM, system control is shared between automation and human workers. The social organisation of workers plays an important role in supporting human decisions. Advances in the application of automation to a system, may change the social organisation associated with its operation. It establishes new work roles...
- White papers 2006-05-12
- Intelligent Decision Support System For Performance Assessing And Ranking
- This paper deals with the problem of assessing the performance of a set of Decision Making Units DMUs, simultaneously considering different kinds of information and performance indexes deriving from various analyses. The tool for integrating heterogeneous data is a model of artificial intelligence; fuzzy logic is applied to multi-criteria decision...
- White papers 2004-11-03
- A Framework For Situated Decision Support Systems
- Internet facilitates easy access to data, information, and knowledge sources available online. This provides an unprecedented opportunity to empower decision support systems with capabilities of directly accessing problem environment and implementing decisions while effectively combining higher degree of automation with human judgment. The central argument of this work is that...
- White papers 2003-06-16
- The Development Of Complex Adaptive Systems Based Decision Support Systems
- The field of Complex Adaptive Systems CAS is providing a powerful approach to simulate complex and highly dynamic problems. In CAS applications, software "Agents" can be created to perform the role taken on by the real-world players. In this paper, we describe work being conducted at the Argonne National Laboratory...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- The Role Of DSS Technology In Knowledge Management
- Decision making requires both information and knowledge. Information or its absence is central to decision making situations involving uncertainty and complexity, while knowledge or its absence is associated with problems of ambiguity and equivocality. This paper proposes that computer-based decision support technologies are appropriate to supporting decision making under conditions...
- White papers 2004-06-07
- Model-Centered Government Decision Support Systems For Socio Economic Development
- The purposes of this paper is: Assess developments in model-centered DSS technology; Identify the role of DSS Decision Support System in improving socioeconomic development policy-making and strategic planning in the government sector; and Critically review the experience of the Arab countries in developing, implementing and institutionalizing government socioeconomic model-centered DSS,...
- White papers 2004-09-02
- Hydra: A Prototype Grid-Enabled Spatial Decision Support System
- Hydra is a grid-enabled spatial decision-support system. Its objective is to provide users with the ability to access and analyse data in order to make better decisions about the spatial allocation of resources, such as building new roads or redevelopment of brownfield sites in urban areas. Hydra has been constructed...
- White papers 2005-01-31
- Using Multiple Views To Model Construction CIB T6S7
- Described in this paper is an approach that addresses the unresolved challenge of how best to design Decision Support Systems DSS of sufficient breadth and depth that construction management personnel will find them responsive to the broad range of functions that they must perform. The authors hypothesize that the development...
- White papers 2005-11-23
- Features Of Advanced Decision Support Systems For Environmental Studies, Management, And Regulation
- Natural resource managers and stakeholders face difficult challenges when managing interactions between natural and man-made systems. Even though the collective interests and computer skills of the community of managers, scientists, and other stakeholders are quite varied, there is an overarching need for equal access by all to the scientific knowledge...
- White papers 2006-08-15
- Preliminary Design Of A Spatial Decision Support System For Poverty Management
- Saddled with the burden of increasing poverty among majority of their populace, many African countries are initiating various Poverty Alleviation Programmes PAP. Many of these programmes however miss out the influence of geography and spatial variables as determinants of poverty, that is, the spatial dimension of the problem of poverty....
- White papers 2004-06-10
- Integration of Heterogeneous Medical Supplies and Computerized Medical Maintenance Management (CMMS) Databases and Decision Support Systems
- This paper discusses and focuses on a medical informatics and business process reengineering research project, the Joint Medical Asset Repository JMAR is a relational database system created to integrate very diverse medical supply and medical maintenance management information from the US military services existing heterogeneous database systems. Most drugs, supplies,...
- White papers 2004-01-18
- A Decision Support System Model For Subjective Decisions
- Modern government and business units routinely collect and store structured data of general interest to them. Subjective assumptions and judgments are made by the mangers to interpret the data. Where the data volume is large, it may be difficult to sift the data, as the managerial skills may not be...
- Tools & templates 2004-08-11
- Multi-Enterprise Collaborative Enterprise Resource Planning And Decision Support Systems
- Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and Decision Support Systems DSS have independently evolved and prospered in the marketplace as well as in academia. More recently, ERP and related systems such as Customer Relationship Management CRM and Supply Chain Management SCM are incorporating decision support tools and technologies. These include Business Intelligence,...
- White papers 2003-12-08
- Decision Making and Knowledge Management in Inquiring Organizations: Toward a New Decision-Making Paradigm for DSS
- This paper discusses DSS and knowledge management in Singerian organizations and calls for a new decision-making paradigm for DSS. This paper describes decision making and knowledge management KM issues in inquiring organizations. The paper further argues that a new paradigm for decision making is needed within decision support systems. This...
- White papers 2001-03-08
- A Personal Case Study: A CFO's Perspective on Business Performance Management
- Understanding how finance and accounting processes have changed in the last 30 years provides an appreciation of the benefits of BPM Business Performance Management, as exemplified in exhibit. During the 1970s and 1980s, mainframe-based multi-dimensional technologies drove Decision Support Systems DSS, which created rough models for future planning. Functional managers...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Development Of An Integrated Decision Support System For Water Quality Control
- Compared to the limited water supply in the Middle East, Lebanon is perceived to be a water rich country. Yet, it faces a growing water supply problem due to many factors including increases in demand, inadequate investment in infrastructure, and deterioration of water quality. Being the foremost water resource in...
- White papers 2006-05-19
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