There are an increasing number of litigants who are forced to represent themselves in court. This causes havoc in the judicial system and raises issues of access to justice. We believe that important support for unrepresented litigants can be provided by the construction of web-based legal decision support systems. We discuss tools we have constructed for building web-based legal decision suppo...

By an effective Group Decision Support System (GDSS) group members can be supported to identify the problem, form possible actions, resolve the conflict and achieve the joint goals. Throughout such a group decision making process, argumentation is widely regarded as a good means to propose the ideas, justify possible alternatives and convince others to achieve group consensus. In this paper, ar...

Construction equipment management and performance data are valuable assets for large contractors that need such historical data for decision making about resource allocation and equipment replacement; however, with large amounts of accumulated data, traditional data analysis based on a transactional system becomes increasingly inefficient. This paper summarizes a web-enabled data warehouse we d...

In this paper we present our participation to the 2015 TREC Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Track. The goal of this track is to find relevant medical literature for a given medical case report which should help address a specific clinical aspect of the case (known as the Clinical Question Type). We investigated the relative merit of conceptversus word-based representations of the information co...

L.H. Utidjian1,3; A. Hogan1; J. Michel3; A.R. Localio2; D. Karavite3; L.Song4; M.J. Ramos3; A.G. Fiks1,3; S.Lorch1; R.W. Grundmeier1,3 1Departments of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 2Departments of Biostatics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 3Depart...

Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS) is regarded as one of the most effective ways to improve the quality of health care and increase patient safety. As electronic medical records become more available, such systems will increasingly become the method of choice to achieve these goals. Creating a CPOE/CDS system is a complex task, and some fail despite t...

The quality and safety of health care leaves much to be desired. Automated clinical decision support (CDS) tools embedded in clinical information systems (CISs) such as computer provider order entry (CPOE) and electronic health records (EHR) applications have the potential to improve care and should be part of any comprehensive approach to improve quality. Medication prescribing is a component ...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...

By using information technology, the healthcare industry is rising rapidly, through automating number of processes such as analyzing records, organizing the huge data, and developing workflow by extraction and maintain knowledge. In the last few years, Decision Support System (DSS) considered as the most outstanding system, which is crucial for any healthcare organization. The aim of this paper...