Stephan Zimmermann zeigt auf, dass intransparente Informationstechnologien, die Fachbereiche und Endanwender eigenständig und vorbei an der IT-Abteilung einführen, eine große Herausforderung für Unternehmen darstellen. Probleme und Chancen dieser Schatten-IT lassen sich mithilfe von...

Decision Support Systems under Multiple Objectives (MODSS) has been classified as a specific type of system within the broad family of DSS and has been one of the most active areas of research. However, despite its theoretical development large scale real-world applications of multi-objective...

Innovation has always been the engine of economic growth. Nowadays, billions are disbursed on research and universities are working increasingly closely with industries to help them developing new products and processes. In order, to maintain this important role and be more competitive, higher...

In the last decades, multi-agent based modeling and simulation systems have become more increasingly used to model the dynamic and the complex healthcare systems which contain many variabilities and uncertainties such as the hospital emergency departments (ED). Modeling and creating virtual...

Decision Support Systems help managers to make intelligent decisions by throwing complex queries on large databases. The response time to queries is a very crucial factor in governing the quality of decision support systems. The response time can be greatly improved by using query optimization...

There is now a preponderance of evidence suggesting that the types of online course management software (OCMS) used in purely online undergraduate college courses, do not meet the needs of younger immature students. These students often lack the learning skills necessary to succeed in such...

This survey provides newly reported approaches to the design and development of DSSs published in peer reviewed journals. DSS applications were searched using the online database ABI/INFORM complete, which is available on the web through ProQuest. The collected 80 specific DSS applications,...