university course timetabling problem is a serious challenge for the academic managers in each semester. because of a vast number of constraints and the complexity of relationship among the constraints, the problem is known to be of hard class. in this paper, a decision support system is proposed to assist the decision makers in solving the university course timetabling. the proposed system pro...

Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) are decision support tools which have been used widely in addressing complicated issues involving a spatial component. The use of SDSS has increased greatly over the last few decades especially in fields such as planning, natural resources management, and environmental science. Traditionally, SDSS have been developed with Geographic Information Systems (G...

In this research, a new method for market-product strategic planning is presented. In this method, an expert system is designed on the basis of identifying important factors that are effective in a firm and analyzing the logical relations between them. The objective is to develop a decision support system (DSS) for helping managers to make strategic decisions. DDS can serve as suitable replacem...

The domain of business intelligence and analytics has seen major contributions concerning the analysis of data, the design of data warehousing infrastructures as well as decision support systems that in essence all share a common goal: Supporting decision-making in organizations. However, surprisingly few publications originating from an information systems perspective deal with decision-makers...

Purpose: of this paper is to summarize the application study of a general framework of intelligent decision support system (IDSS) to collaborative projects in conglomerate enterprises. In some situations, even with the knowledge of how to find right information and which decision making methods to apply, we do not have enough time to make right decisions at the right time. In this paper, the fr...

In the early stages of a large-scale housing project, many interior design alternatives remain to be confirmed after a rough review of the costs. The project participants move on to the later stages of budgeting and construction without the exact information on the interior costs, and several occasions may arise when costs increase or time delays occur, driven by interior design specification c...

Decision support systems (DSSs) are a sub-set of information systems that support human decision-making through computerized systems that provide contextual information. DSSs allow decision-makers to improve their strategic planning and management control; from a business standpoint these systems have a wide-range of application (Yong & Taib, 2009). DSSs can be applied in a variety of areas to ...

The paper presents a methodology for building sequential decision support systems based on decision theory using value of information (for short, DT-VOI based SDSSs). DT-VOI based SDSSs support decision-makers in difficult problems of sequential decision-making. In particular we consider the problem of buildingDT-VOI based SDSSs which are capable of supporting decisions in critical situations w...