Reusability is considered to be the key for achieving productivity and quality in software, and much has been claimed about the particular contributions of the object-oriented paradigm towards the achievement of these goals. Object-oriented frameworks are coarse-grained reuse units, composed of a set of classes speci cally designed to be re ned and used as a group. In this paper, we discuss the...

After more than three decades of research, the Decision Support Systems (DSS) community is still looking for a unified and standardized DSS development methodology. In this paper, we argue that the existing solutions remain too distinct and project-specific because they fail to properly consider the context of the target DSS in their processes. This paper describes a new approach, whose goal is...

BACKGROUND Translating scientific evidence into daily practice is problematic. All kinds of intervention strategies, using educational and/or directive strategies, aimed at modifying behavior, have evolved, but have been found only partially successful. In this article the focus is on (computerized) decision support systems (DSSs). DSSs intervene in physicians' daily routine, as opposed to inte...

This study implements decision support systems (DSS) in a business simulation game. Fifty-Eight companies, consisting of about 300 senior graduate students participating in a business game, developed DSS and reported on the systems developed. We later evaluated a number of variables related to their DSS: use of systems, contribution of systems, and user satisfaction. Our findings validate the u...

This position paper presents, firstly, the evolution of decision support systems (DSS) and the challenges in teaching in the field of DSS. Secondly, the concepts of management process, decision support technology, self-service business intelligence (SSBI), business simulation games and literature search results on business games associated with DSS are presented. Lastly, we suggest a conceptual...

This paper presents DSS, a distributed storage system that can be shared across a wide area network. DSS offers an infrastructure for supporting block-level caching and sharing in large distributed computing environments. DSS makes it possible to treat any disk either local or remote in the same way. This allows us to pool storage over a wide area network to create virtual disks that can be use...

It has been hypothesized that soy isoflavones exhibit anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory functions, however, the effects of soy isoflavones on inflammatory bowel diseases remain unknown. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effect and underlying mechanism of dietary soy isoflavones on dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis. Mice were administered DSS and soy isoflavones...

Responses by peripheral blood leukocytes may contribute to the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). We used DNA microarrays to reveal transcriptional patterns in the blood of 14 adults with DHF. Acute DHF was defined by an abundance of transcripts from cell cycle- and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-related genes, suggesting a proliferative response accompanied by ER stress. Transcript-ab...