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A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and help people make decisions about problems that may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance—i.e., unstructured and semi-structured ...
An intelligent decision support system (IDSS) is a decision support system that makes extensive use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. Use of AI techniques in management information systems has a long history – indeed terms such as "Knowledge-based systems" (KBS) and "intelligent systems" have been used since the early 1980s to describe components of management systems, but the term ...
An example of how a clinician might use a clinical decision support system is a diagnosis decision support system (DDSS). DDSS requests some of the patients' data and, in response, proposes a set of appropriate diagnoses.
An executive information system (EIS), also known as an executive support system (ESS), [1] is a type of management support system that facilitates and supports senior executive information and decision-making needs. It provides easy access to internal and external information relevant to organizational goals.
A marketing decision support system (sometimes abbreviated MKDSS) is a decision support system for marketing activity. The system is used to help businesses explore different scenarios by manipulating already collected data from past events.
Automated Decision Support, or ADS, systems are rule-based systems that are able to automatically provide solutions to repetitive management problems. [1] ADSs are very closely related to business informatics and business analytics. Automated decision support systems are based on business rules. These business rules can be created or operated ...
Thus most DM software is based on decision analysis, usually multi-criteria decision-making, and so is often referred to as "decision analysis" [5] [6] or "multi-criteria decision-making" [4] software – commonly shortened to "decision-making software". Some decision support systems include a DM software component.
A spatial decision support system (SDSS) is an interactive, computer-based system designed to assist in decision making while solving a semi-structured spatial problem. [1] It is designed to assist the spatial planner with guidance in making land use decisions.