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 one-off decision making, as the standard reporting capabilities of MISs were perceived to be more suitable for routine day-to-day decisions. Data on an organization's external operating environment, as well as internal operational information, is included and an interactive interface allows managers to retrieve and manipulate data. Modeling techniques are used to examine the results of alternative courses of action.
The purpose of the paper is to provide meaningful decision support to managers of complex environments. Specifically, the research used the STRATEGEM-2 simulation game and purposely developed a decision support method designed to improve human performance within a complex system. The experiment required subjects to make a single decision within...
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...
Enterprise Resource Planning ERP packages are not sufficient from a decision making point of view. Organizations that have implemented such systems are now facing the challenge of incorporating new resources and experiences for decision support purposes. The paper presents the findings of research on the construction of a hybrid decision...
BEAVERTON, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 4, 1995--Reuters in the United Kingdom and Ireland has invested in a Sequent Computer Systems high-end UNIX system to run its new decision support DSS system and support disaster recovery for all UNIX-based services.
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...
DAYTON, Ohio--BUSINESS WIRE--January 9, 1995--AT&T Global Information Solutions today announced a multi-million dollar contract with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for a massively parallel processing system that provides added computing capacity for Wal-Mart's decision support system, the largest commercial database system in the world.
This paper presents the PDG system, a decision support tool meant to evaluate SMEs from an external perspective in order to produce a diagnosis of their performance and potential, complemented with relevant recommendations on which owners-managers can base their decisions such as hiring new personnel or reinvesting in the company,...
This paper argues that it is important to study issues concerning trust and reliance when developing systems that are intended to augment cognition. Operators often under-rely on the help of a support system that provides advice or that performs certain cognitive tasks autonomously. The decision to rely on support seems...
In the paper of rural India, planning mainly consists of distribution of resources through various government-sponsored watershed management schemes, which are implemented by sectoral institutions in the district. A conceptual framework and a Spatial Decision Support System for rural Land Use Planning (SDSS/LUP) have been developed for supporting decision making...
This paper introduces a successful application of a Special Purpose Simulation SPS program in developing a Decision Tree module that is part of a unified Decision Support System DSS template. The DSS template consists of three modules: Decision Tree DT, shortest and longest path Dynamic Programming DP Network, and Cost...
The use of commercial geographic information system software to process large raster datasets of terrain elevation, population, land cover, vegetation, soils, temperature, and rainfall requires both projection from spherical coordinates to plane coordinate systems and transformation from one plane system to another. Decision support systems deliver information resulting in knowledge...
This paper describes the framework for developing a Knowledge-Based Decision Support System KBDSS for making more informed decisions for managing variation orders in institutional buildings. The KBDSS framework consists of two main components, i.e., a knowledge base and a decision support shell. The database will be developed through collecting data...
Traditional voice communication services have no potential for generating enough profit and bringing the expected return on investment on the 3G infrastructures and licenses. Therefore, actors in the mobile marketplace must concentrate on new sources of revenue, i.e. next generation mobile services. However, thinking about new engagements in this rapid...
This paper discusses the design and application of a decision support system DSS based on the third-generation distributed dynamic decision-making (DDD-III) simulator and contingency theory to increase the organizational cognitive capacity and to facilitate the processes of adaptation. The role of the DSS is to provide mission-monitoring and re-planning information...
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...
A new category of Decision Support System called Spatial Decision Support System SDSS has emerged which uses a spatial representation for displaying spatial data and supporting spatial modeling. The synergy between these two research groups has lead to the adoption of state of the art technical solutions and the development...
VIENNA, Va.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 31, 1995--MicroStrategy, a leading provider of data warehouse and Decision Support Solutions, and Informix Software, the leading provider of parallel database technology, today announced that they are developing a sophisticated Category Management Decision Support System DSS for Giant Food using MicroStrategy's DSS AgentTM against the INFORMIXR-OnLine Dynamic...
The authors have developed the Optimisation Support System OSS, a spatial decision support system, to deliver optimal solutions to the problem of identifying comprehensive, adequate and representative locations for conservation planning. This paper briefly demonstrates the application of systematic conservation planning to optimal MPA design and the development of OSS,...
This paper presents MicroMaPPAS (Micro-simulation Modelling and Predictive Policy Analysis System), which is a Spatial Decision Support Systems SDSS under development for Leeds City Council. The innovative feature of this system is the use of spatial microsimulation techniques for the enhancement of local policy decision making. The paper addresses the...
BEAVERTON, Ore.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 14, 1996--Sequent Computer Systems Inc. and Treasury Services Corp. TSC have announced general availability and certification of TSC's leading financial decision support software system for the Sequent SymmetryR server platform.
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