Collaborative spatial decision support systems (C-SDSS) have been used to help groups of stakeholders understand data and search for opportunities at resolving local and regional decision problems in various domains including land use, transportation, and water resources. The key issue in designing an effective C-SDSS is the anticipation of user information needs. Knowledge of user information ...

In large canal irrigation project areas, integrated management of surface and groundwater resources can improve water use efficiencies and agricultural productivity and also control water logging. Such integrated management requires an estimation of spatial distribution of recharge and ground water flow in the underlying aquifer. Recharge occurs both as percolation losses from fields and seepag...

This paper is focused on the development of methodology for multicriterial land valorization in land use planning by application of genetic algorithm. One of the key tools for design of the decision support system based on this methodology is geographic information system which serve to quantify multicriterial data and represent resulting spatial data. The methodology and the algorithm are appl...

It is evident that in practice information systems development methods (ISDMs) are usually not used as prescribed. For the effective use of ISDMs method adaptation (i.e. a decision making process through which an agent adapts the method to the project context at hand) is needed. To facilitate a human agent in managing method adaptation appropriate decision support should be provided. Different ...

Design: The rule-based clinical decision support content of a large integrated delivery network with a long history of computer-based point-of-care decision support was reviewed and analyzed along four functional dimensions: trigger, input data elements, interventions, and offered choices. Results: A total of 181 rule types were reviewed, comprising 7,120 different instances of rule usage. A to...

Soon after the concept of a management information system was introduced in the mid-1960s, marketers tailored it to their own unique needs, naming it the marketing information system (MKIS). Several studies have been conducted of how MKISs are used in the Fortune 500 companies, and the authors compare their current findings to those of ten and eighteen years ago. It seems that both the MKIS sup...

Literature results and personal experience show that intrusive modalities of presenting suggestions of computerized clinical practice guidelines are detrimental to the routine use of an information system. This paper describes a solution for smoothly integrating a guideline-based decision support system into an existing computerized clinical chart for patients admitted to a Stroke Unit. Since m...

The authors explore the issue of creativity support by computerized information systems used in supporting decision making processes in business organizations. A discussion of their architectural proposal for a creative decision support system, derived as an extension of the classical SpragueCarlsson 1982 concept, is followed by a case study presenting a system at work being a practical impleme...

the management and analysis of flood hazards is of great socio- economic and ecological importance as it was estimated that 50 percent of word’s population resides and works within the costal zone till 2030. the management of coastal flood hazard reflects the cumulative effects and criteria more than the human mind can handle effectively. the flood management requires decision making for rela...

making decision has become one of the most challenging responsibilities of managers in recent decades. finding the optimum solution for multiple criteria decision making problems is complicated. notably, multiplicity of decision making indices accompanied by variability in quantitative and qualitative measures aggregates the complexity of decisions. operations research (or) and multiple criteri...