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What is IT/Decision Support System (IT/DSS)

Chapter 330
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A computer system designed to provide assistance in determining and evaluating alternative courses of action. IT/DSS acquires data from the mass of routine transactions of a firm/event, analyzes it with advanced statistical techniques to extract meaningful information, and narrows down the range of choices by applying rules based on decision theory.
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Health Information Technology/BioDefense Needs to Fight Bio-Terrorism
Tanushree Govil (Stanford University, USA) and Jivesh Govil (Cisco Systems, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch330
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