Evolutionary development of decision support systems: Important issues for early phases of design

Vtcki L. Sauter; Joseph L Schofer

Evolutionary development of decision support systems: Important issues for early phases of design

Vtcki L. Sauter, Joseph L Schofer

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Abstract

It has long been recognized that decision support systems (DSS) should be developed using an evolutionary approach by which users are provided with prototypical systems so that they can respond to specific design characteristics. While this approach generally works well in practice, there remains the problem of where to begin, especially if the designer does not have much experience. Based on limited field studies, we find that preferences for information, both in terms of the content and the format of the data, vary with decision focus (tactical vs. strategic), environmental stability, and, in some cases, experience. These results suggest that, if it is possible to determine the context and decision-maker attributes, it is possible to have a clearer notion of what information to include in the decision support system.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Journal of Management Information Systems
Volume	4
Issue number	3
State	Published - Dec 1 1987

Keywords

Decision support systems
Evolutionary systems development
Prototyping

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Computer Science Applications
Management Science and Operations Research
Information Systems and Management

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