... Project management Decision‐support systems Organizational effectiveness The intensely competitive global marketplace compels enterprise decision makers to seek out competitive advantages by eliminating inefficiencies, optimizing internal operations, and maximizing relationships with all...

...B.S. Sahay; A.K. Gupta The thrust of this paper is to develop a comprehensive software selection criterion and view information technology related issues in supply chain management. This paper furnishes implicit details of decision support systems, software solutions and factors associated...

...‐systems were prevalent. Furthermore, ICT did not provide much help with respect to the necessary social interactions in the decision‐making process. Implications of these findings are discussed for the design of future decision‐support systems. In this paper we report on a field study of ICT and its...

.... Hours worked per week and the number of paid days off. Hiring cost (including training cost of new hired). Human resource management Decision‐support systems Order picking In modern distribution industry, a distribution center (DC) must increase its operational efficiency (in both...

.... Therefore, modern computer‐aided software engineering (CASE) tools will be used to eliminate the problems. Now, businesses have made widespread use of an application‐driven approach to the delivery of informational systems, such as decision support systems, management information systems and so on. A cross...

... of Visual IFPS/Plus’s “what‐if” facilities. Inventory control Decision‐support systems Problem solving Monte Carlo simulation The single‐period inventory problem can be summarised as follows. A single order quantity can be made for delivery of an item before the beginning of a period...

...Sean B. Eom This study investigates the changing intellectual structure of the decision support system (DSS) field by means of an empirical assessment of the DSS literature over two successive time periods, 1971‐1990 and 1991‐1995. A multivariate data analysis tool, cluster analysis, is applied...

... et al., 1996a). Intelligent agents play the role of assistants by allowing managers to delegate work to the software agent. Agent technology is finding its way into many new systems, including decision support systems, where they perform many of the necessary decision support tasks...

... will be covered in detail in this section. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computing Decision‐support systems Groupware Collaboration is about working together and sharing information with each other. The value of collaboration and its potential contributions include increasing productivity, reducing...

...Claire Cassie Discusses the application of decision support systems (DSS) to assist in solving marketing decisions. As the marketing environment becomes more competitive the pressure to gain the “edge” over your competitors becomes more intense. Marketing decision support systems (MDSS...

...Bel G. Raggad Using a decision support system (DSS) delays the decision‐making process and commits the user to the cost of invoking the system. The existing configurations of decision support systems do not guarantee the profitability of the DSS. If the DSS generates messages that the decision...

...Susan Coles; Jennifer Rowley Considers the potential use of spreadsheets as decision‐support systems (DSS). Commences by considering the nature of DSS and the advantages and disadvantages of spreadsheets as DSS, and then proceeds to consider and illustrate some of the models that can be easily...

... of certainty levels ‐ overconfidence. Too much weight on concrete events and over‐estimation of completeness of data. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Decision-support systems Expert systems Knowledge‐based systems Lifecycle costing Expert consultation systems (ES) are different from most...

...Bel G. Raggad Examines the effects of decision unstructuralness (unstructuredness + noisiness) on decision‐support systems (DSS) adoption. Suggests that end‐users are sensitive to “unstructuralness” when they select a decision support approach. Problem structuring at the intelligence phase...

... (ESS), that age‐old problem is on its way to being solved. Databases Decision‐support systems Downsizing Executive information systems Integration Management information systems Planning USA © MCB UP Limited 1995 In compliance with IBM Systems applications architecture (SAA...

...Rajeev Kaula Decision support systems (DSS) like individual DSS, group DSS, or organization DSS, have traditionally been developed separately. Attempts to integrate their separate development into a unified framework. Specifies the relationship between the decisions supported by different DSS...

...Larry W. Jacobs; Joachim Lauer Presents a microcomputer‐based interactive decision support system (DSS)to assist managers to improve decision making for machine scheduling in a job shop environment. The system downloads data from a factory information system, and schedules work into the appropriate...

...Hossein Bidgoli Shows how to introduce computer support for the implementation of different decision‐making settings. Provides a comparison between decision support and expert systems. Analyses the similarities and dissimilarities of decision support systems (DSS) and expert systems(ES...

... groups Decision‐support systems Expert systems New technology Performance management USER EVALUATION OF EXPERT SYSTEMS 17 E nsuring that the aims of expert systems designers and users are congruent helps to promote successful computer use. User Evaluation of Expert Systems Patricia L. Rees...

...(decision support systems) and ESs. The integration of symbolic and connectivist theories have resulted in the neural network ES, which can learn and adapt to situations, becoming an emerging trend. Certain facts about ESs which should be remembered by managers, in general, which can be treated as a set...