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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Decision Support Systems (DSS)"”.
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Use and effectiveness of decision support systems (DSS): Study of the Saudi private sector
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A study into the rationale, design and evaluation of a specific decision support system in compensation planning
… developed information technology to managerial decision making has given rise to a new discipline known as Decision Support Systems (DSS). While considerable development of DSS has taken place since the mid-seventies, in such areas as applications, conceptual clarification of goals and …
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The Archipelagian Approach to DSS prototyping: an empirical study
… methodology for designing and implementing Decision Support Systems (DSS), attempts to integrate modular design and adaptive design. The approach is based on decomposing the proposed system's tasks into structured and nonstructured modules, evaluating the difficulty of implementing each …
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Design and implementation of an Intelligent Cost Estimation Model for Decision Support System software
Recently, Decision Support Systems (DSS) have increased in importance and usage. However, these increases have not carried over into developing better models to estimate the real cost of developing the DSS. This thesis explores various estimation methods that seem pertinent to DSS. It advocates the …
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Geospatial Data Modeling to Support Energy Pipeline Integrity Management
… interest, and operators often use computer-based decision support systems (DSS) to analyze and allocate resources for active and potential hazards.</p> <p>We designed and implemented a geospatial data service, REST API for Pipeline Integrity Data (RAPID) to improve the amount and quality of data …
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Who’s Running the Farm? How a Sample of Kansas Farmers View Their Usage of Agricultural Operating Systems
… digitized farming with implications for on-farm decision-making. Part of the digitization is happening through corporate-managed decision support systems (DSS), which seeks to aid farmers in their on-farm decision-making by providing farms with access to data and means to automate their farm …
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Decision support systems for solving discrete multicriteria decision making problems
… the design and implementation of an interactive decision support system, assisting a single decision maker in reaching a satisfactory decision when faced by a multicriteria decision making problem. There are clearly two components involved in designing such a system, namely the concept of …
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Cash & Carry Sector: Location Models and GIS Decision Support
… location enters the era of the use of Spatial Decision Support System technology to enhance the decision efficiency. Meanwhile, a dynamic location analysis system is important and necessary to retailers. This is why a Spatial- DSS is proposed and designed in the thesis.<br/><br/>The designed …
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Buildings and corporate strategy : towards a management system model
… role in strategic planning. Three levels of decision making are presented as part of a strategic planning model: corporate, division and function. It is argued that in this scheme, a construction and real estate group in the corporation is a function level operation. The types of decision …
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Effective applications of microcomputer-based management information and decision support systems for small and medium sized enterprises
… of microcomputer-based Management Information Systems (MISs) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) to Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). It is found that the hardware platform today is already sufficient for SMEs. However, information regarding successful implementation of MISs for SMEs is …
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Decision making in a decision support systems environment: an evaluation of spatial ability and task structure
Decision Support Systems (DSS) should increase the effectiveness of a decision and the efficiency of the decision making process. The success of DSSs has varied among individual users. One explanation for this variation is that individual’s spatial ability has a moderating effect on performance. …
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An investigation into short term latex pricing and national production forecasting decision support system for the public agricultural rubber industry in Thailand
Decision support systems (DSS) are used to support efficient and effective decision making in many circumstances such as forecasting, managing problems and analysing data. Although used globally in the agricultural, public, government and business sectors, DSS are yet to be adopted within the …
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Die gebruik van besigheidsintellegensie in bestuursbesluitneming in landbouverkope
… sector in South-Africa and BI is within decision support systems (DSS) The purpose of this study is to determine the influence BI has on agricultural companies in South-Africa, the obstacles working against effective implementation, the involved parties in the acquisition of data, how the …
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A BIM Interoperable Web-Based DSS for Vegetated Roofing System Selection
… negative impacts on global energy supply, ecosystems, and local or regional economies. In order to eliminate such negative impacts, AEC practitioners are seeking new business models in which the Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology can be considered an important technology driver. …
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The viability of IS enhanced knowledge sharing in mission-critical command and control centers
… local equipment using Network Management Systems. The overall network coordination responsibilities are handled by a centralized command and control center, or Network Management Center. A formal case study is performed in this global telecommunications network to evaluate the design of an …
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Application of Geographic Information System and Probabilistic Analysis for Water Pipeline Renewal Prioritization
… and methodologies for rational maintenance decisions under uncertainty for water distribution systems have been well developed. The methodologies take into account the uncertainty in the break occurrence and consider the cost associated with rehabilitation and renewal. Some of these …
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Risk-based bridge asset management
… focuses on the development and application of Decision Support Systems (DSS) for the optimization of bridge stocks management and upkeep. The developed DSS introduces a streamlined bridge risk assessment methodology that leverages structural reliability and advanced probabilistic models to …
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BUILDING DSS USING KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE APPLIED TO ADMISSION & REGISTRATION FUNCTIONS
… the development and implementation of Decision Support Systems (DSS). The research describes the traditional development approaches analyzing their drawbacks and introduces a new DSS development methodology. The proposed DSS methodology is based upon four modules; needs' analysis, data …
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Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems Frameworks for Decision Support in Sustainable Development
… in sustainable development face challenging decisions due to complex environmental phenomena, intersecting socioeconomic factors, diverse stakeholders, data scarcity, and constrained financial resources. Decision Support Systems (DSS) software can aid these stakeholders by improving …
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Integrating ontologies and argumentation for decision-making in breast cancer
… but one of these has been the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS). The evidence for the effectiveness of such systems is mixed, and the technical basis of such systems remains open to debate. However, one basis that has been used is argumentation. An important aspect of clinical …
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