Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, CA
Hemant Bhargava
Decision Support Systems
Last updated: June 15, 1995
Decision support systems are computer-based systems that
facilitate the use of data, models, and structured
decision processes in decision making. Contributing disciplines---and useful keywords
for search---include
Decision Theory, Decision Analysis, Operations Research, Management Science,
and Artificial Intelligence. The
Decision Support Systems journal
is a leading publication in this area.
: Announcing
DecisionNet:
Modeling and Decision Support over the World Wide Web
I am maintaining this page as a starting point for my students, as well as to provide
research associates and myself interesting places to explore to learn about what's going on in
the field. If you have comments or suggestions, please send me mail:
bhargava@nps.navy.mil
Contents:
Here's a list of URLs that indicate WWW locations having strong relevance to DSS. I am not always able to keep this updated
or even to continually check for relevance. So any comments for additions and deletions would be most
appreciated. You can send email (preferably---if you suggest new entries---with new entries set up in HTML-LI format)
to bhargava@cs.nps.navy.mil.
With each URL is a brief description: ``Quoted sentences'' were pulled off from the original sources;
Other statements represent my remarks.
- Andrew Blair runs an IDSS (Intelligent Decision Support Systems) newsgroup. Administration
requests may be sent to idss-request@socs.uts.EDU.AU.
- Equifax National Decision Systems
``National Decision Systems
specializes in providing marketing information ,targeting tools, and
desktop decision support systems to over 10,000 American businesses,
governmental agencies , and non-profit organizations.''
- Lumina Decision Systems:
a variety of WWW links to Decision Analysis related work and software,
including in the areas of risk analysis, DSS, and AI
- Microsoft
Decision Theory Group
``The Decision Theory Group at Microsoft Research is investigating the use of probability and utility
theory to enhance the functionality of microcomputers.''
- DSS work at Monash
University: Info about DSS work in the IS group.
- Dan Power's DSS page
at University of Iowa: Dan has put together a pretty broad and comprehensive
collection of DSS related materials.
- Virtual Decision
Environment at the University of Texas: ``designed to integrate the technologies of the future
to help with the decisions of today. Specifically, the VDE can be used to simulate the propagation of
design features through the factory floor and into the market place.''
- Belief Networks: includes downloadable
executable software in the areas of probabilistic belief networks, utilities, and influence diagrams
This section contains particular decision support systems that can be accessed, and
interactively used, over the World Wide Web.
- Mathbrowser
from MathCad.
A Windows-32 bit browser software that can, in addition to interpreting HTML
documents, "view any Mathcad document placed on the WWW!"
- Which & Why Decision
Valuation Software
"decision valuation software that simplifies arranging, prioritizing, and
evaluating criteria. It can help you to structure and compare the relevant variables during the
decision-making process."
- DEMOS (Decision
Modeling System from LUMINA)
"visual environment for creating,
analyzing and communicating probabilistic models for business, risk and decision
analysis" using influence diagrams.
- GEMS
Geographical Environmental Modeling System at CMU
- Decision Support Systems for Water
Managment
- DESSERT:
Decision Support Systems and Toolkit for Service Management. DESSERT aims to
support telecom personnel in the formulation of advanced communication service
offerings, and in the deployment of resources to meet customer requirements in a timely
and satisfactory manner.
- Groundwater
Modeling Systems:
The Department of Defense Groundwater Modeling System (GMS) is a comprehensive graphical
user environment that provides an interface to several models for numerical groundwater
modeling. GMS provides tools for site characterization, model conceptualization, mesh and
grid generation, geostatistics, and sophisticated tools for graphical visualization.
- GAMS: (Guide to Available Mathematical Software) from National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). GAMS is a cross-index and virtual repository of
mathematical and statistical software components operated by others.
- Netlib at AT&T Bell Laboratories
Netlib is ``a repository of mathematical software, data, documents, address lists, and other useful
items.''
- OR-Library: a collection of test data sets for a variety of
problem areas; maintained at the Imperial College of Science,
Technology & Medicine
WWW Links to Related Fields
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, January 3--6, 1996
- ISDSS Conference, Hong Kong, June 22-23, 1995
- TIMS Conference, Singapore, June 25-28, 1995
- INFORMS Conference, New Orleans, October 29-Nov 1, 1995
- Research Projects
- I serve as Associate Editor of the
Decision Support Systems journal
- I teach IS 4185 (Model-based Decision Support Systems)
at the Naval Postgraduate School
- Project summaries from my DSS class
- Students and Theses in DSS
- Andy S. King,
``Decision Support Over the World Wide Web.''
- Capt Dan McQuay, ``Modeling and Decision Support
Applications World Wide.''
- Mike Downs, ``Generating Decision
Support Systems from Algebraic Model Specifications.''
- Charles E. Emde, ``A Decision
Support System for Naval Aviation Mishap Reporting.''
- John Lewis, ``Expert System Application to Avionics Maintenance.''
- Teresa Michal, ``Watchbill Scheduling for Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanograph Center, Monterey, CA.''
- Virginia Lamb, ``Watchbill Scheduling for Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanograph Center, Monterey, CA.''
- IS 4185 at Naval Postgraduate School
- Back to my home page