NDLI: Some Design Considerations for Commercial Exploitation of (interactive) Microcomputer Based Decision Support Systems

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Some Design Considerations for Commercial Exploitation of (interactive) Microcomputer Based Decision Support Systems

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Bleackley, Scott
Copyright Year	1984
Abstract	This thesis explores some design considerat ions for commercial exploitation of Decision Support systems for powerful, inexpensive microcomputers. We examine software packages which contain elements of Decision Support but are not sold as Decision Support software. From these packages we learn that the decision maker must have enough control to change the system so that the system reflects his or her world, rather than being fixed to the designer's concept of the decision maker's world. We w i 1 l look at the source of the know ledge in the Decision Support system. Public knowledge about the context and the source of the data allows decision makers to judge the credibility of the information used within a Decision Support system. We discuss the problems of turning private knowledge about the decision making domain into public knowledge and embedding this knowedge into a Decision Support system. We also examine art i f ic ia l intelligence programming in order to gain some understanding of existing techniques for dealing w i th uncertainty. We explore the possibility of using some of these techniques to deal wi th the inherent uncertainty of decision making. During the design of a Decision Support system the product's market must be careful l y considered. Otherwise, even a we1 l designed and implemented system w i l l not be commercially viable. We look at several factors which affect the market for Decision Support systems including the rapidly increasing power of microcomputersandtheeffe~tofexistingsoftwareonbyers'ex~ectations. Taking al l of the factors into account, we expect the trend in the future to be toward more powerful and intelligent Decision Support tools on micro computers.
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Language	English
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