Nacrtak Extraction of short-wood from harvesting operations is becoming common practice in Russia. Logging companies are faced with a large number of options for short-wood transport, but they have limited knowledge of logistics potential. Developed GIS-based decision support program is a unique tool assisting logging companies in making comprehensive decisions on organizational options for the...

Department of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran; Business Systems and Analytics Department, Lindback Distinguished Chair of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany; Departamento de Economía Aplicada I...

The continuing development of DSS applications requires that new technologies be exploited to allow new classes of decision be supported. This paper discusses the use of a Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Decision Support System (DSS) generator to create Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). Many important areas of DSS application, such as routing or marketing, make use of spatial in...

While evidence-based medicine has increasingly broad-based support in health care, it remains difficult to get physicians to actually practice it. Across most domains in medicine, practice has lagged behind knowledge by at least several years. The authors believe that the key tools for closing this gap will be information systems that provide decision support to users at the time they make deci...

An Information System Design Theory (ISDT) is proposed for use in the development of Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS). First, a review of SDSS is presented along with the problems specific to end-users of these systems. Next, a brief overview of ISDT is presented along with a specific example of an ISDT for SDSS that addresses the question of how to establish relationships between compon...

This paper describes an integral system to model nonpoint source pollution in surface waters. Diffuse pollution models were included in a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) with a unique platform, common interfaces and Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities. This consists of preand postprocessing tools, model control and sensitivity analysis for the parameters in the models. Parti...

A laboratory experiment was used to investigate the effects on deciision-maker performance of using geographic information system (GIS) technology as a spatial decision support sysllem (SDSS). GIS are increasingly being used for decision-making, yet research about their contributions to the performance of decision-makers has been lacking. This study makes a contribution to that apparent void. V...

Background: All nursing cares require decision-making, and the ability to make the best decisions impact upon the quality of nursing care. Moreover, authenticity and accuracy of the best cares may be questioned if not recorded and reported properly and in a standard manner. We aimed to design and implement an electronic nursing managementsystem and then evaluate satisfaction of nurses with the ...

This study explores task- and healthcare model-specific differences in clinicians' information needs which can affect the uptake of decision support. Results of a web experiment involving 104 general practitioners are presented. Respondents indicated that guidelines were the most important source of information with almost equal weighting for acute, chronic and preventive care. A patient's qual...

the issue of medical errors is currently a global concern which places a heavy financial and emotional burden on communities. a clinical decision support system (cdss) is an electronic system designed to support clinical decision making. considering the increasing importance and use of systematized nomenclature of medicine-clinical terms (snomed-ct), we developed snomed-ct to implement it more ...