This tutorial provides a foundation in GIS including its basic structure, concepts, and spatial analysis. GIS is a new field in business schools and presents opportunities for research. It is derived from about a dozen disciplines, some unfamiliar to most IS researchers. Following an overview of vertical-sector uses of GIS, the paper introduces their costs and benefits. The links of GIS to rela...

Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran; Business Systems and Analytics Department, Lindback Distinguished Chair of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; Departamento de Economía Aplicada I...

This paper discusses the development of a Web-based collaborative Social Decision Support System (SDSS) Toolkit, and presents three case studies of its use by students in graduate level courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to assess what they had learned together. The students were asked to collectively pool their interpretations of what they learned and see to what degree they ...

Maps are often used as decision support tools in both, desktop geographic information systems (GIS) and mobile GIS environments. The decision support capabilities of current location-based services (LBS) are limited to navigation support and database querying with no analytic evaluation of the attractiveness of alternative destinations being offered. This chapter demonstrates how LBS can be ext...

introduction: one of the types of hospital management information systems is decision support information system (dsis). this system uses decision-making models and databases for preparing specific information to support their semi-structured or unstructured decisions. the present study aimed to design a decision dsis model for board of trustees of ayatollah kashani hospital, shahrekord, iran. ...

Poverty and malaria appear to have an intertwined link. This paper aims to define the relationship between poverty and malaria in Yunnan, China, and to make recommendations for future research in this important area. Data on malaria prevalence and the population's income in each county between 2005 and 2010 were obtained from the Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Yunnan B...

Introduction Farmers in the developing world frequently find themselves in uncertain and risky environments, often having to make decisions based on very little information. Risks for smallholder farmers are often critical because of their poverty. In addition, in the tropics and subtropics, the natural environment is spatially and temporally variable and often harsh, thereby increasing the unc...

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