Decision Support: An Examination of the DSS Discipline (Google eBook)

David Schuff

Springer, Dec 3, 2010 - 224 pages

This volume of Annals of Information Systems will acknowledge the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) by documenting some of the current best practices in teaching and research and envisioning the next twenty years in the decision support systems field. The volume is intended to complement existing DSS literature by offering an outlet for thoughts and research particularly suited to the theme of describing the next twenty years in the area of decision support. Several subthemes are planned for the volume. One subtheme draws on the assessments of internationally known DSS researchers to evaluate where the field has been and what has been accomplished. A second subtheme of the volume will be describing the current best practices of DSS research and teaching efforts. A third subtheme will be an assessment by top DSS scholars on where the DSS discipline needs to focus in the future. The tone of this volume is one of enthusiasm for the potential contributions to come in the area of DSS; contributions that must incorporate an understanding of what has been accomplished in the past, build on the best practices of today, and be be integrated into future decision making practices. The primary questions raised by this volume are: What will information systems-based decision support entail in twenty years? What research is needed to realize the envisioned future of information systems-based decision support? How will the teaching of information systems-based decision support change over the next twenty years? What are the best practices of teaching in the decision support area that can be leveraged to best disseminate DSS knowledge advances to students and practitioners? Decision Support: An Examination of the DSS Discipline will be a volume containing a mixture of peer-reviewed and invited papers. The volume will have several goals: Report on important research currently in progress in the decision support field. Identify areas in which research is needed in order to advance the information systems-based support of decision making processes. Identify "best practices" in current methods of teaching decision support concepts. Identify anticipated changes necessary to ensure decision support concepts are adequately taught in the future. Stimulate creative and thoughtful discussion between academic research leaders and the practitioner information systems community that will improve the research, practice, and dissemination of "lessons learned" in the decision support area. Increase the awareness of the problems and challenges faced by decision support researchers, teachers, and practitioners that can be met with innovative computerized decision support systems.

Contents

• 1 GDSS Past Present and Future: 1
• Perspective of Eleven Pioneers: 25
• 3 The Intellectual Structure of Decision Support Systems Research 19912004: 49
• 4 Ethical DecisionMaking and Implications for Decision Support: 69
• Comparison of United States and Hong Kong China: 83
• 6 Knowledge Management Capability in Education: 113
• Conceptual ModelingINTbreak and Requirements Elicitation: 131
• 8 AgentBased Modeling and Simulation as a Tool for Decision Support for Managing Patient Falls in a Dynamic Hospital Setting: 149
• 9 ContextAware Mobile Medical Emergency Management Decision Support System for Safe Transportation: 163
• A Teaching Case Using the Planners Lab Software: 183
• Determining the Decision ValueINTbreak of Decision Support Systems: 203
• Index: 221

About the author

DANIEL J. POWER is Professor of Information Systems and Management at the College of Business Administration, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. He holds a doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has developed decision support software and systems, and has examined the impacts of DSS on managers in his research studies. Power has published numerous book chapters and proceedings papers and has authored more than 20 articles for the important journals of his field. He also serves as Editor of DSSResources.com, the knowledge repository about computerized systems that support decision making.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Decision Support: An Examination of the DSS Discipline; Volume 14 of Annals of Information Systems
• Author: David Schuff
• Editors: David Schuff, David Paradice, Frada Burstein, Daniel J. Power, Ramesh Sharda
• Publisher: Springer, 2010
• ISBN: 1441961801, 9781441961808
• Length: 224 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Information Management; Business & Economics / Operations Research; Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management; Computers / Information Technology; Computers / Management Information Systems; Computers / Online Services / General; Decision support systems