Decision Support Systems (DSS), as computerized systems that implement and support complex decision processes, have evolved significantly during the last four decades. However, this evolution has been dominantly bottom-up and technology-driven, with new emerging technologies supporting the traditional concept of decision making as a basically rational process (Simon 1960). In an effort to recon...

A Decision Support System for Chemical Incident Information. (August 2002) Gaurav Sharma, B. E. , Panjab University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. M. Sam Mannan Decision Support Systems (DSS) find extensive applications in business enabling industry managers to make intelligent risk decisions. Although widely used in business applications, the application of DSS to Process Safety Management h...

A prototype decision support system (DSS) was developed to enhance Navy tactical decision making based on naturalistic decision processes. Displays were developed to support critical decision making tasks through recognition-primed and explanation-based reasoning processes, and cognitive analysis was conducted of the decision making problems faced by Navy tactical officers in a shipboard Combat...

Decision Support Systems (DSS) that operate within a spatial or spatial–temporal context represent special forms of more general decision support systems. Their intent is to permit planners and policy makers to: (1) integrate large quantities of existing space–time data, (2) use these data as inputs to sophisticated forecasting models for predicting the results of alternative policy choices, an...

A bstract Today managers and policy makers are confronted with an overwhelming range of choices of computer software to develop decision support systems (DSS). The authors argue that DSS language evaluation and selection should be a multi-step process involving most, if not all, of the following: The objectives of each of these activities are described , as well as specific procedures for accom...

addressing environmental management problems at catchment scales requires an integrated modelling approach, in which key bio-physical and socio-economic drivers, processes and impacts are all considered. development of decision support systems (dsss) for environmental management is rapidly progressing. this paper describes the integration of physical, ecological, and socio-economic components i...

We propose to enhance decision support systems (DSS) by coordination capabilities to align the decision making of consortium partners for improving the process quality in volatile process environments. In computer simulation experiments, we reveal conceptional shortcomings of traditional DSS if unforeseen process-threatening events like unexpected workloads have to be handled by a consortium. I...

A prototype decision support system (DSS) was developed to enhance Navy tactical decision making based on naturalistic decision processes. Displays were developed to support critical decision making tasks through recognition-primed and explanation-based reasoning processes, and cognitive analysis was conducted of the decision making problems faced by Navy tactical officers in a shipboard Combat...

The paper describes a prototype decision support/expert system for contractor prequalification, CP-DSS. The system firstly evaluates contractors' capabilities according to the project specific criteria. It then identifies any risk that may be caused by contractors. Finally, contractors are appraised according to their likely performance, management capability, reputation, resources, progress, c...

In the last few years, ontologies have been successfully exploited by Decision Support Systems (DSSs) to support some phases of the decisionmaking process. In this paper, we propose to employ an ontological representation for all the content both processed and produced by a DSS in answering requests. This semantic representation supports the DSS in the whole decisionmaking process, and it is ca...