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What is Decision Support Systems (DSSs)

Chapter 32
Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration
An interactive, flexible, and adaptable computer-based information system, especially developed for supporting the solution of a non-structured management problem for improved decision making. It utilizes data, provides an easy-to-use interface, and allows for the decision maker’s own insights
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Decision Support Systems
John Wang (Montclair State University, USA) and David J. Radosevich (Montclair State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch032
Abstract
Over the four decades of its history, decision support systems (DSSs) have moved from a radical movement that changed the way information systems were perceived in business, to a mainstream commercial information technology movement that all organizations engage. This interactive, flexible, and adaptable computer-based information system derives from two main areas of research: the theoretical studies of organizational decision making done at the Carnegie Institute in the 1950’s and early 1960’s as well as the technical work on interactive computer systems which was mainly performed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Keen & Morton, 1978).
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Chapter 81
Interactive, Flexible, and Adaptable Decision Support Systems
An interactive, flexible, and adaptable computer-based information system, especially developed for supporting the solution of a nonstructured management problem for improved decision making. It utilizes data, provides an easy-to-use interface, and allows for the decision maker’s own insights
Published in Chapter: Interactive, Flexible, and Adaptable Decision Support Systems; From: Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM
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Chapter 28
Development and Design Methodologies in DWM
DSSs are a specific “class of computerized information system that support decision-making activities.” “A DSS is an interactive computer-based system or subsystem intended to help decision makers use communications technologies, data, documents, knowledge and/or models to identify and solve problems…and make decisions….Five more specific Decision Support System types include: Communications-driven DSS, Data-driven DSS, Document-driven DSS, Knowledge-driven DSS, and Model-driven DSS.”
Published in Chapter: Development and Design Methodologies in DWM; From: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies
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