Developing Decision Support Systems : A Container Management Example
The problem of managing an intercontinental containertransportation system is used as an example of howknowledge from the areas of database design, managementscience, and human factors research can be combined in thedesign of a decision support system. Using a newrepresentation of time-related database objects, we firstpresent a logical data model of a container transportationsystem. A hierarchically distributed decision supportsystem can be based on this model. A physical databasestructure is proposed and a survey of partial optimizationmodels to be used in the decision support system is given