Decision Making Support Systems

The book presents state of the art knowledge about Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied papers on decision-making support systems, to help diffuse scarce knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating decision-making support systems, and to create an awareness among academicians and practitioners about the relevance of decision-making support systems in the current complex and dynamic management environment. Decision-Making Support Systems: Achievements and Challenges for the New Decade is a comprehensive compilation of DMSS thought and vision, dealing with issues such as decision making concepts in organizations.

Decision Making Support Systems Architectures; Categorizing Decision Support Systems; Spatial Decision Support Systems; From Human Decision Making to DMSS Architecture; DSS for Rescheduling of Railway Services Under Unplanned Events; Using Decision Support System to Help Urban Policy-Makers Cope with Transport Problems; Procedural Cuing Using an Expert Support System; On the Ontology of a Decision Support System in Health Informatics; Knowledge Management Support for Decision-Making in the Pharmaceutical Industry; Innovative Features in a DDSS Based on Intelligent Agent Technology; Knowledge Warehouse; Ripple Down Rules; Intelligent Support Framework of Group Decision Making for Complex Business Systems; How Synthetic Characters Can Help Decision-Making; Using Narratives to Convey Knowledge, Quality Factors for DMSS Assessment; Executive Information Systems in Spain; Critical Factors in the Development of Executive Systems; DMSS Implementation Research; Evacuation Planning and Spatial Decision Support; Knowledge Sharing and Management.