Decision Support Systems in the Twenty-First Century

by Marakas, George M.

• ISBN13: 9780137441860
• ISBN10: 013744186X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For a Decision Support System course offered in business schools. Packed with essential information, this valuable text helps future business management professionals learn to make and support managerial decisions, providing a thorough understanding of the support aspect of DSS. Written from a cognitive processes and decision-making perspective, it concentrates on issues that emphasize managerial applications and the implication of decision support technology on those issues.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction to Decision Support Systems	1	(32)
The Decision Maker	33	(22)
The Process of Making a Decision	55	(37)
Decisions in the Organization	92	(18)
Modeling Decision Processes	110	(38)
Group Decision Support and Groupware Technologies	148	(34)
Executive Information Systems	182	(43)
Expert Systems and Artificial Intelligence	225	(34)
Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition	259	(23)
Machines That Can Learn	282	(39)
The Data Warehouse	321	(32)
Data Mining and Data Visualization	353	(32)
Designing and Building Decision Support Systems	385	(27)
Implementing and Integrating Decision Support Systems	412	(25)
Creative Decision Making and Problem Solving	437	(31)
Decision Support in the Twenty-First Century	468	(19)
References	487	(10)
Index	497