Decision support systems often require knowledge of users' preferences. However, preferences may vary among individual users or be diicult for users to articulate. This paper describes how user preferences can be acquired in the form of preference predicates by a learning apprentice system and proposes two new instance-based algorithms for preference predicate acquisition: 1ARC and Compositiona...

introduction: one of the types of hospital management information systems is decision support information system (dsis). this system uses decision-making models and databases for preparing specific information to support their semi-structured or unstructured decisions. the present study aimed to design a decision dsis model for board of trustees of ayatollah kashani hospital, shahrekord, iran. ...

Crisis management is a special type of collaborative situation in which the actors are subject to an uninterrupted stress. To deal with the important consequences (human and economic losses) of these situations, we study how to represent emergency management situations based on experience feedback. We use several techniques: situations representations, knowledge engineering techniques and scena...