Decision support systems

Maria Rashidi, Maryam Ghodrat, Bijan Samali, Masoud Mohammadi

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Abstract

![CDATA[The current decision-making problems is more complex than it was in the past, prompting the need for decision support. Most real-world decision-making situations are subject to bounded rationality; whereby the technical and economic evaluation of all solution alternatives (branches) is bounded by the consideration of dominant subjective constraints. The early definition of DSS introduced it as a system that intended to support decision makers in semi-structured problems that could not be completely supported by algorithms. DSSs were planned to be an accessory for managers to expand their capabilities but not to replace them. Decision support systems could provide the means to complement decision makers by quantitatively supporting managerial decisions that could otherwise be based on personal intuition and experience. In addition to the traditional DSS characteristics (i.e., data and model orientation, interactivity), the inclusion of an intelligent knowledge base would be required to quantify the impacts of both technical (hard) and subjective (soft) constraints.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationManagement of Information Systems
EditorsMaria Pomffyova
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherIntechOpen
Pages19-38
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781789841985
ISBN (Print)9781789841978
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Keywords

  • management information systems
  • decision making
  • decision support systems

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