The environment in which a DSS is developed can have a significant impact on the development and satisfaction provided by the DSS. A questionnaire was sent to nonacademic TIMS members in an attemmpt to identify specific DSS environments, the capabilities provided by these DSS, and environmental factors that significantly influenced the DSS environment. This paper presents the results of this in...

An analysis of multiple criteria decision support systems and facilities management web-based automation applications that were developed by researchers from various countries assisted the authors to create their own Multiple Criteria Decision Support Web-Based System for Facilities Management (DSS-FM). DSS-FM differs from others in its use of new multiple criteria analysis methods as were deve...

This study implements decision support systems (DSS) in a business simulation game. Fifty-Eight companies, consisting of about 300 senior graduate students participating in a business game, developed DSS and reported on the systems developed. We later evaluated a number of variables related to their DSS: use of systems, contribution of systems, and user satisfaction. Our findings validate the u...

Reusability is considered to be the key for achieving productivity and quality in software, and much has been claimed about the particular contributions of the object-oriented paradigm towards the achievement of these goals. Object-oriented frameworks are coarse-grained reuse units, composed of a set of classes speci cally designed to be re ned and used as a group. In this paper, we discuss the...

Many complex and unstructured decisions are hindered by a lack of clear understanding of various underlying assumptions and perspectives involved in the decision process. At present, little attention is paid to the elicitation of underlying assumptions and perspectives in dealing with complex issues in traditional decision support systems (DSS). We argue that the Socratic dialectic inquiry is a...

In the present work a Decision Support System (DSS) is described, that supports decision making with regard to the selection of the appropriate control design approach for nonlinear plants. More specifically, this DSS supports decision making concerning several aspects of designing safe switching controllers. Decisions are based on specific available information about the plant’s description an...

Terms such as ‘adaptive’ and ‘evolutionary’ capture the organic nature of the development of a decision support system (DSS). However, they are rarely defined in DSS research and their meaning varies widely in the research literature. The aim of this paper is to contribute to decision support systems theory by clarifying the nature of the evolutionary process of a DSS. Using insight from the th...