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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Management of Information Systems |
Editors | Maria Pomffyova |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | IntechOpen |
Pages | 19-38 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781789841985 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781789841978 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Open Access - Access Right Statement
© 2018 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- management information systems
- decision making
- decision support systems