Decision support systems have experienced a marked increase in attention and importance over the past 25 years. This is the second in a two-volume work that presents a survey of the decision support system (DSS) field. Written by well-known scholars and practitioners from the DDS community, it covers both developed territory and emergent frontiers. It will give the reader a clear understanding of fundamental DSS concepts, methods, technologies, trends, and issues. It will serve as a basic reference work for DSS research, practice, and instruction.

Basic reference work for decision support system (DSS) concepts, methods, technologies, trends, and issues Authored by well-known scholars and practitioners from the DDS community Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Time and space issues for decision Support.- Decision Support in Turbulent and High-Velocity Environments.- Supporting Decisions in Real-Time Enterprises: Autonomic Supply Chain Systems.- Decision Support for Emergency Situations.- Geographic Information and Analysis for Decision Support.- Support for Real-Time Decision Making in Mobile Financial Applications.- Context-Sensitive Decision Support Systems in Road Safety.- Scopes of Decision Support.- Personal Decision Support Systems.- Developing Practical Decision Support Tools Using Dashboards of Information.- Business Intelligence.- Competitive Intelligence Systems.- Process-Based Decision Support.- A Framework for Supporting Decisions in a Global Context The Case of a Global DSS for Financial Planning.- Developing and Managing Decision Support Systems.- On the Design Features of Decision Support Systems: The Role of System Restrictiveness and Decisional Guidance.- DSS Systems Analysis and Design: The Role of the Analyst as Change Agent.- Evaluation of Decision Support Systems.- Planning a Portfolio of Decision Support Systems.- Decision Support System Evolution: Predicting, Facilitating, and Managing Knowledge Evolution.- Decision Support Cases and Application.- Systems for Supporting Operations Management Decisions.- Systems for Supporting Marketing Decisions.- Financial DSS: Systems for Supporting Investment Decisions.- Flying High with Real-Time Business Intelligence.- Decision Support for Security: A Mixed Reality Approach to Bioterror Preparedness and Response.- DSS in Healthcare: Advances and Opportunities.- Decision Support Systems in Forest Management.- DSS Experiences in South America.- DSS Experience in Africa Cases from Egypt.- Evolution of Knowledge Management Towards Enterprise Decision Support:The Case of KPMG.- Decision Support Horizons.- Compositional Enterprise Modeling and Decision Support.- Information Technology Support for Inquiring Organizations.- Towards Decision Support for Participatory Democracy.- The Internet and DSS Massive, Real-Time Data Availability Is Changing the DSS Landscape.- Information Visualization for Decision Support.- The Decision Hedgehog for Creative Decision Making.- Creativity Support Systems.- Systems for Strategic Learning.