Decision Support Systems: A Preliminary Study,

Abstract

This report contains findings of a summer study on the requirements and design of future decision support systems (FDSS). It is our opinion that computer science as a discipline has finally reached sufficient maturity to provide a technological basis for realizing much of the goal of information systems of the last decade. There are many decision support systems (DSS) which work well today. However, most of these with any sophistication are specialized small systems. Large systems are usually badly designed with ad hoc techniques. As a consequence, it is usually extremely costly to modify such systems. The study here is not intended to come up with piecemeal solutions to the existing problems, but rather to investigate the feasibility of developing a methodology for constructing decision support systems which can meet the demands of the next decade. We think that through this more systematic approach to the problem as a whole, many of the existing problems will also be solved.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA108104

Entities

People

  • Daniel Chester
  • Mani Chandy
  • Philip Chang
  • Raymond T. Yeh
  • Woodrow W. Bledsoe

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Environment
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Parallel Computing
  • Relational Databases
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design