The predicted expansion of the telecommunications market in Europe will place a premium upon the ability of providers of telecommunications services to efficiently configure systems that satisfy their customers' needs. The complexity of the domain will mean that configuration by hand will not be an efficient solution, and some kind of computer-based support will be required. In this paper we de...

Clinical decision-support systems (CDSSs) are computer programs that are designed to provide expert support for health professionals making clinical decisions. The goal of these systems is to help health professionals analyze patient data and make decisions regarding diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of health problems. This article discusses the characteristics of such systems, addresses th...

The authors illustrate several issues in decision support and decision support systems (DSS), state of the art research in these fields, and also their own studies in designing a higher education DSS. The final section contains our contribution in outlining the modules of the DSS, involving the present systems and databases of FSEGA and UBB, results and activities belonging to FSEGA students, t...

In this paper, the framework for a decision support tool for planning bills of material is presented. This tool generates a set of modular planning bills of material from the manufacturing bills of material for a company. The tool attempts to consolidate together options in a product family which are specific. The force with which the tool attempts to consolidate two or more options together is...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the clinical impact of computerized decision support with and without electronic access to clinical guidelines and laboratory data on antibiotic prescribing decisions. DESIGN A crossover trial was conducted of four levels of computerized decision support-no support, antibiotic guidelines, laboratory reports, and laboratory reports plus a decision...

Many safety-critical systems have a human-in-the-loop for some part of their operation, and rely on the higher cognitive abilities of the human operator for fault diagnosis and risk-management decision-making. Although these operators are often experts on the processes being controlled, they still sometimes misjudge situations or make poor decisions. There is thus potential for Safety Decision ...