In recent years, the SNCF Research Department has developed five different tools to monitor production operations. This supervision has the potential to affect the whole production process. This article will present the role played by the supervisory function in the production process and explain how this function contributes towards making the production process more efficient. In the second p...

Information system and data mining are important resources for the investors to make decisions. Information theory pointed that the information is increasing all the time, when the corporations build their millions of databases in order to improve the efficiency. Database technology caters to the needs of fully developing the information resources. This essay discusses the problem of decision m...

Forest planning is a complex endeavor when political agendas, public demands, industry needs, and sustainability issues are thrown into the mix. Spatial decision support systems (SDSS) have evolved to address this complex planning situation. Considerable work on SDSS development has emanated from the field of forestry. This article reviews SDSS development and use in forest resource management....

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...

THE ABILITY TO EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY gather, manage, and retrieve voluminous amounts of information is essential to decision makers in today’s information age. Because of time constraints, decision makers face not only the problem of information access but also of information overload. The ability to integrate ideas and knowledge from various sources is particularly important for the effe...