Decision Support
An Examination of the DSS Discipline
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As we become more and more connected, the number of technology interruptions are increasing as well. The mechanisms by which a technology interruption takes attention away and ongoing task performance decrease...
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Contagious diseases pose significant challenges to public healthcare systems all over the world. The rise in emerging contagious and infectious diseases has led to calls for the use of new techniques and techn...
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Online social networks (OSNs) produce a huge volume of content and clickstream data over time as a result of continuous social interactions between users. Because these social interactions are not fully observ...
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A modern enterprise is a heavily wired and networked socio-technical system where multiple components play in symphony to yield a competitive position in the ear of digital economy. While the underling communi...
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Email consumes as much as a quarter of knowledge workers’ time in organizations today. Almost a necessity for communication, email does interrupt a worker’s other main tasks and ultimately leads to information...
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Wireless technology and the emergence of handheld devices provide new ways to deliver and present information. For the military, availability of needed ammunition information is critical for decision making, e...
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Sometimes we must look backwards before moving forward. This chapter provides an overview of the field of decision support systems (DSS), including a brief history and a progress report of a related ongoing re...
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This paper introduces the concepts of neural networks and presents an overview of the applications of neural networks in decision support systems (DSS). Neural networks can be viewed as supporting at least two...
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Globalization of markets is changing the structure of business enterprises and hence the need for and design of computerized decision support systems. Trying to understand how decision support systems can and ...
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Given the prevalent use of email, intelligent decisions need to be made regarding how best to manage email workloads. The email Strategy Investigation Model (eSIM) is a decision support system with this aim in...
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The result of a typical web search is often overwhelming. It is very difficult to explore the textual listing of the resulting documents, which may be in the thousands. In order to improve the utility of the s...
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The dramatic increase in distance learning (DL) enrollments in higher education is likely to continue. However, research on DL that includes psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills is virtually non-existe...
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In order for organizations to succeed, they must be able to respond with flexibility in a geographically dispersed environment. Virtual organizations, which can form, disband, and re-form to meet ill-defined a...
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Recent strides in computing and telecommunications have provided managers with access to ever increasing amounts of data through higher speed computers and extensive connectivity. However, these advances have ...