Integrated and Strategic Advancements in Decision Making Support Systems

Integrated and Strategic Advancements in Decision Making Support Systems

Pascale Zaraté

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 338

ISBN13: 9781466617469|ISBN10: 1466617462|EISBN13: 9781466617476

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1746-9

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Large businesses, government entities, and other organizations constantly have to make complex decisions with many potential long-term impacts that need to be monitored and adjusted as necessary. In today’s globalized society, these decisions are increasingly complicated.

Integrated and Strategic Advancements in Decision Making Support Systems explores the world of Decision Making Support Systems (DMSS), which encompasses Decision Support Systems (DSS), Executive Information Systems (EIS), Expert Systems (ES), Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), Creativity Enhancing Systems (CES), and more. This publication is essential for any decision-making professional in learning how to effectively implement 21st century solutions.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Populating Knowledge Based Decision Support Systems (pages 1-20)

Ignacio García-Manotas, Eduardo Lupiani, Francisco García-Sánchez, Rafael Valencia-García

Knowledge-based decision support systems (KBDSS) hold up business and organizational decision-making activities on the basis of the knowledge available concerning the domain under question. One of the main problems with knowledge...

Chapter 2

Supporting Public Decision Making: A Progressive Approach Aided by an Ontology (pages 21-36)

Maryse Salles

This paper discusses a number of results from the CAVALA project, a project which was set up to design a method for defining assessment indicators in relation to territorial economic development policies. An analysis of the...

Chapter 3

Intelligent Decision-Support Systems for e-Tourism: Using SPETA II as a Knowledge Management Platform for DMOs and e-Tourism Service Providers (pages 37-50)

Ángel García-Crespo, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Juan Miguel Gómez-Berbís, Javier Chamizo, Ismael Rivera

The Internet has disrupted traditional tourism in which a promising landscape of intelligent service provision has erupted by applying a new lattice of cutting-edge technologies. Thus, the different actors of the tourist services are...

Chapter 4

Deploying Decision Support Systems Using Semantic Web Technologies (pages 51-61)

Lars Ludwig, David O’Sullivan

Decision support systems are deployed in a wide variety of business applications using a variety of core technologies and programming languages. One of the more promising technologies to evolve in recent year has been the semantic...

Chapter 5

Using the Rhizomer Platform for Semantic Decision Support Systems Development (pages 62-82)

Roberto García

Decision support systems get more useful as they manage to make decisions more informed. However, the cost of information and of combining and making it available in the appropriate context make this a tricky trade-off. Fortunately...

Chapter 6

Access and Use of Information by Primary Health Care Providers in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative Approach (pages 83-92)

Maria G. N. Musoke

This article summarises findings from a qualitative study conducted in rural Uganda, East Africa. The main aim of the study was to investigate the accessibility and use of health information in the lower echelons of Primary Health...

Chapter 7

The Evaluation of Library Services Methods: Cost Per Use and Users’ Satisfaction (pages 93-107)

Aristeidis Meletiou

In these competitive years of continuing change, libraries enrich their services with modern technologies and innovative approaches to satisfy users’ standards. This engagement significantly increases the effects of these new inputs...

Chapter 8

Application of Selected Software Tools for Data Collection and Analysis in Library Management and Their Effectiveness Assessment: Results of the Research Conducted at Polish Academic Libraries (pages 108-119)

Marek Górski, Marzena Marcinek

In this paper, the authors present the results of research on the use of software tools for data collection and analysis in strategic and current library management. Special attention has been paid to StatuS and Performance Analysis...

Chapter 9

Using Transaction Logs to Study the Effectiveness of Librarian Behaviors on User Satisfaction in a Virtual Setting: A Mixed-Method Approach (pages 120-126)

Nahyun Kwon, Vicki L. Gregory

Chat reference is becoming more common and it is important to be able to effectively judge user satisfaction with the results they receive. The behaviors the reference librarian should use to ensure that users are satisfied with chat...

Chapter 10

Towards an Assessment of Public Library Value: Statistics on the Policy Makers’ Agenda (pages 127-137)

Kristine Paberza

This paper presents methodology, early findings, possible applications of results and lessons learnt from the research study “Public libraries: value, trust and satisfaction”. The study was conducted in Latvia as the part of the...

Chapter 11

User’s Behaviour inside a Digital Library (pages 138-146)

Marco Scarnò

CASPUR allows many academic Italian institutions located in the Centre-South of Italy to access more than 7 million articles through a digital library platform. The behaviour of its users were analyzed by considering their “traces”...

Chapter 12

Examining the Implications of Process and Choice for Strategic Decision Making Effectiveness (pages 147-162)

Paul L. Drnevich, Thomas H. Brush, Alok Chaturvedi

Most strategic decision-making (SDM) approaches advocate the importance of decision-making processes and response choices for obtaining effective outcomes. Modern decision-making support system (DMSS) technology is often also needed...

Chapter 13

An Empirical Study of Group Awareness Information in a Web-Based Group Decision Support System (pages 163-187)

Nipat Jongsawat, Wichian Premchaiswadi

Group awareness information is important information for group work. It represents group members’ roles and responsibilities, their positions on an issue, their status, and the state of various group processes. The group awareness...

Chapter 14

A Typology of Tacit Knowledge Sharing Themes to Fostering Group Decision Support System (pages 188-198)

Amin A. Shaqrah

Today, much effort and importance is placed on the management of knowledge, its security, and sustainability in context to organizations and their competitiveness. This paper outlines a typology to guide that applying tacit knowledge...

Chapter 15

An Integrated Decision Support System for Intercropping (pages 199-216)

A. S. Sodiya, A. T. Akinwale, K. A. Okeleye, J. A. Emmanuel

Intercropping, which is the agricultural practice of growing two or more crops in the same land area, is not currently yielding adequate results in Africa. Despite the advantages of intercropping like improved soil fertility...

Chapter 16

E-Government: A Comparative Study of the G2C Online Services Progress Using Multi-Criteria Analysis (pages 217-228)

Denis Yannacopoulos, Panagiotis Manolitzas, Athanasios Spyridakos

Governments across the European Union (EU) face the challenge of responding to public demand for more responsive, efficient and effective services. E-Government based on the principle of providing services via internet to citizens...

Chapter 17

A Social-Academic Network Analysis of the EURO Working Group on DSS (pages 229-251)

Rahma Bouaziz, Tiago Simas, Fátima Dargam, Rita Ribeiro, Pascale Zaraté

This paper addresses aspects of the social network analysis (SNA) performed on the social-academic network implemented for the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS). The EWG-DSS network has more than 105 members...

Chapter 18

Strategic Implications of Information Technology for Resource and Capability Outsourcing Decisions (pages 252-264)

Paul Drnevich, Thomas H. Brush, Mark Shanley

Outsourcing generally involves non-strategic resources and/or non-asset specific capabilities. However, in this paper, the authors examine the non-traditional, but increasingly more common, use of IT to facilitate theoretically...

Chapter 19

EBDMSS: A Web-Based Decision Making Support System for Strategic E-Business Management (pages 265-284)

Fen Wang, Natalie Lupton, David Rawlinson, Xingguo Zhang

This paper describes a Web-based intelligent decision making support system (DMSS) to deliver balanced scorecard (BSC) based modelling and analysis in support of strategic E-business management. This framework supports E-business...

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