Decision Support Systems (DSS) are interactive information systems meant to help managers and their staff analysts to make and take good decisions. The DSS concept was promoted in the late '70s by various IT vendors, practitioners and academia people in order to overcome the dissatisfaction of users that tried to use the information systems of that time in the process of decision making. In spite of early doubts about the new concept, the DSS movement has relentlessly produced new methodological and practical solutions and results in an effort to integrate the new information technologies and to consider field experiences. At the present time DSS integrate various information technologies such data bases, models, artificial intelligence techniques and computer-based communication.
By Daniel J. Power
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