Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) assist decision makers in analyzing spatial problems and evaluate alternative solutions using applicable spatial and non-spatial data as well as analytical models. SDSS environments are typically built on top of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), which are capable of storing, manipulating and displaying geographically referenced information. Traditio...

ABSTRACT This research asks the nature of environmental design information used by building designers. The goal is to identify commonality in the types of information that design tools should produce. It presumes improving use of design tools will lead to improved building performance. Through practitioner interviews, it investigates application of design decision support tools by building desi...

Medical knowledge is traditionally disseminated via the publication of documents and through participation in clinical practice. Information technology offers to extend both modes of dissemination, via electronic publishing and virtual reality training, for example. AI promises even more radical changes through the possibility of publishing clinical expertise in the form of expert systems, whic...

To plan and visualise routes of materials movement in complex construction site is an important consideration in construction project management. The unique complexity of routing materials is burdens on planner and site manager. To address this issue, an study was taken to develop a PC based software tool, named Virtual Construction Material Router (VCMR) that produce sequences of materials rou...

This article overviews the prairie and tree planting tool or PT2 (1.0), an online GIS-based decision support for landowners interested in exploring opportunities to plant trees around their farm fields conservation production purposes. 1.0 can be found at: https://pt2.nrem.iastate.edu/ . With (1.0) users locate of interest aerial photograph mapping geographic information system (GIS). Users exp...

Decision support tools in the process industry have been gaining relevance, especially for operation under uncertain conditions. This study describes real-time reconciled simulation (RTRS), and analyzes its usefulness as decision-making tool operators, unexpected changes. The proposed methodology is implemented two case studies context of an oil refinery hydrogen network, where both plant netwo...