Benefits and Limitations of Decision Support Systems (DSS) with a Special Emphasis on Weeds

Special issue on "Multicriteria Decision Support Systems"

Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

Emerging Applications of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Crisis Management

The recent financial crisis, the growth of the frequency of extreme risk events are motivations for a new analysis of the mechanisms and processes that implies high risk and high uncertainty. The new dynamics and the severe impact of the extreme events (natural hazards, terrorism, technological accidents, and economic/financial crises), but also the complexity of interventions have motivated th...

Decision support system (DSS) for site selection floodwater spreading schemes using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS)

Decision Support Systems in a Medical Environment and Its Limitations

With the recent spreading of social networks and digital communities, the Web has a new business model for providing free content-sharing services. Using the power of the masses and the collective intelligence, Web 2.0 sites have created enormous e-commerce opportunities for marketing and advertising. Thus, there is still a necessity of developing tools to help users to reach good decisions in ...

Decision Support Systems (DSS) in Construction Tendering Processes

The successful execution of a construction project is heavily impacted by making the right decision during tendering processes. Managing tender procedures is very complex and uncertain involving coordination of many tasks and individuals with different priorities and objectives. Bias and inconsistent decision are inevitable if the decision-making process is totally depends on intuition, subject...