Can Decision Support Systems Help Improve the Sustainable Use of Fungicides in Wheat?

Use of computerized decision support systems to improve antibiotic prescribing.

This decade will see the emergence of the electronic medical record, electronic prescribing and computerized decision support in the hospital setting. Current opinion from key infectious diseases bodies supports the use of computerized decision support systems as potentially useful tools in antibiotic stewardship programs. However, although antibiotic decision support systems appear beneficial ...

Use Semantic Decision Tables to Improve Meaning Evolution Support Systems

Meaning Evolution Support Systems have been recently introduced as a real-time, scalable, community-based cooperative systems to support the ontology evolution. In this paper, we intend to address the problems of accuracy and effectiveness by using Semantic Decision Tables. A Semantic Decision Table separates general decision rules from the processes, bootstraps policies and template dependenci...

Modeling Sustainable Product Lifecycle Decision Support Systems

Sustainable product lifecycle systems are attracting increasing attention because of cost competition, resource constraints and environmental issues. Short lifecycle products, such as consumer and defense electronics, are of particular concern. We formulate a closed-loop supply chain with Stochastic Dynamic Programming method. By applying the concept of a sustainable product lifecycle, guidelin...

Can Stated Preference Valuations Help Improve Environmental Decision Making?

Decisions about preservation, protection, or development of environmental “commodities” like ground water, atmospheric visibility, open space, wildlife, wetlands, and forests are often made without good information about the value of preservation relative to the cost. Clearly, the economic cost of preservation is often substantial. The cost of preserving wildlife habitat, for example, often tot...

Can the Use of a DSS Improve Decision Making?