This page focuses on the major DSS research topics. It is an evolving hypertext document.
This section contains a summary of major research streams related to Decision Support Systems.
»DSS user behavior and user characteristics.
»DSS user interface design, standards, features.
»DSS capabilities, including development of inteligent agents, model management, incorporating hypertext in DSS, OLAP, ROLAP.
»DSS typoplogies and DSS/task interactions.
»Relationships between DSS and quality of decisions made, decision acceptance, decision satisfaction, and decision speed.
»Impact of DSS on learning, problem knowledge, problem structuring.
»DSS design approaches, factors affecting implementation.
»DSS architecture including client-server approaches.
»Integrating DSS and GDSS.
»Use of information in decision making.
»Effectiveness of computer graphics for decision support.
Please send comments about DSS Research topics to me, daniel.power@uni.edu. I'll include them in this section of the document. I reserve the right to edit comments for length. Comments will be included as seems appropriate.
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»Little, J. D. C. "Models and Managers: The Concept of a Decision Calculus". Management Science, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. B466-485, April 1970.
»Scott Morton, Michael S.
Management decision systems; computer-based support for decision making.
Boston, Division of Research, Graduate School of Business
Administration, Harvard University, 1971.