Gmis: An Experimental System for Data Management and Analysis
John J. Donovan, Henry D. Jacoby · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2011
How many people would climb aboard a trans-Atlantic flight if they thought the airline lacked the capability to process volumes of weather and traffic data, and to plan a safe route?Not many, for most of us have come to expect that the very best information processing services will be applied in this circumstance.Yet public policymakers and corporate executives are regularly faced with far more complex and serious problems (perhaps with risks that are less immediate and obvious), and must make decisions without the capacity to manage and analyze the pertinent infor-