Making strategic business decisions is one of the most difficult and, at the same time, most interesting issues of management. Decisions of this kind, classically referred to as ill-structured problems, are extremely difficult to support with management information systems. Recent research on solving this type of problems through reasoning by analogy has charted a possible course of development...

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...

One of the major causes of delays in construction sites belongs to the delays in delivering materials. This paper introduces the integrated Building Information Modelling (BIM) model combined with a supply chain and a controlling system, along with its efficiency for alleviating the negative effects of delays caused by a lack of materials on construction sites. So, firstly the concept of feed-f...

This article reviews the use of information from animal-based monitoring systems, management information systems (MIS) and decision support systems (DSS) in pig production. As technology evolves, more and new types of data can be automatically collected. This increases the pace at which new systems are being developed. The collected data are processed into information, which should be used at t...

Advances in information technology and explosion of internet technology is creating new professional users, across and within countries. These users are looking at technology to provide decision support for non-recurring tasks, to provide prototyping capabilities and to provide research support. However, organizational decision environment is also changing, creating havoc for system builders wh...

Policy planning for rice research funding requires both analyses of past research funding data and current needs of stakeholders in the rice supply chain. In this paper, we describe a framework and a decision support system development to support a national policy planning for rice research. The framework utilizes ontology as a key component to model the standard data schema and to support deve...

In this paper we explored three areas: decision making and information seeking, the relationship between information seeking and uncertainty, and the role of expertise in influencing information use. This was undertaken in the context of a qualitative study into decision making in the initial stages of emergency response to major incidents. The research took an interpretive approach in which ac...

The efficient long term management of large-scale public funded assets is an area of growing importance. Ageing infrastructure, growth, and limited capital all result in the need for more robust and rigorous methodology to prioritise rehabilitation and renewal decisions and as importantly, to forecast future expenditure requirements. The overall objective of this research is to develop a Bayesi...

Requirements against logistics services are getting more and more rigorous. Costs and prices have to be decreased significantly, at the same time reliability and quality levels are to be increased continuously. Therefore meeting market demand quickly and efficiently requires sound and effective decision making processes. That’s why the managers of logistics service providers as well as the lead...