This book is aimed toward clarifying first the very concept of innovation in decision making as for what it really means today in a continuously changing set up where technologies require a continuous effort in learning and coping with constant instability and uncertainty.

This book leads us from a presentation of the important factors of Decision Support Systems, through the process of implementation and considerations for real-time applications, to a variety of examples in domains as diverse as Military Operations, Business, Healthcare, Criminal Investigation and Transport. 

Contents

Foreword by Rob Parkins,

• Decision Support, Decision Quality, and Strategic Decisions

Donald C. Creswell and Peter C. McNamee

• Decision Support Systems using Systems Approach

Manuel Mora, Guisseppi Forgionne, Ovsei Gelman, Francisco Cervantes, Alfredo Weitzenfeld and Stanislaw Raczynski

• Real-time Decision Support Systems in Uncertain Environments

Gloria E. Phillips-Wren and Guisseppi A. Forgionne

• Probabilistic Decision Support Systems with Maximum Entropy

Dawn E. Holmes

• Software Engineering Decision Support Methodology and Applications

Gunther Ruhe

• Decision Support Systems in Defence

Andreas Tolk and Dietmar Kunde

• Decision Support Systems in Business: A Case for Competitive Analysis

Yanqing Duan and Phillip Burrell

• The Evolution of Decision Support Systems in Healthcare

Stefania Montani and Riccardo Bellazzi

• Decision Support Systems in Intelligent Patient Monitoring and Management

Vicente Moret-Bonillo, Mariano Cabrero-Canosa, Elena Hernández-Pereira, Eduardo Mosqueira-Rey

• Building an Intelligent Decision Support System for Criminal Investigation

Amit Konar and Bijita Biswas

• Transport Projects Selection: A Fuzzy Decision Support System Approach

Erel Avineri