Decision Support Systems

Effective decision making is the most important issue in businesses. Therefore, decision maker tries to consider all factors that may affect their decisions. However, this is impossible because of the cognitive limits of human beings. Also, decision makers need to have ability for the conflict resolution, to reduce risk, to manage multi-partnership, to handle successive decisions and so on. As a result, decision support systems (DSS) concept has come into use. The term is used both as a research discipline and as information systems type.

As a research field DSS is defined as a “conceptual framework for a process of supporting managerial decision making, usually by modelling problems and employing quantitative models for solution analysis”. On the other hand, information systems at the organization’s management level that combine the data and sophisticated analytical models or data analysis tools to support semi-structured and unstructured decision making is called DSS. In this track, we plan to evaluate decision support systems from both perspectives.