Database System Approach to Management Decision Support
John J. Donovan · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2011
As the complexity of modern day life increases with astonishing rapidity, the complexity of the problems the policymaker must face increases at a correspondingly rapid rate.Traditional intuitive methods of decision-making are no longer adequate to deal with these complex problems.Thus systems must be developed to provide the information and analysis necessary for the decisions which must be made.We call these systems Decision Support Systems (DSS) .while database systems provide a key ingredient to decision support systems, the characteristics of the problems now facing the policymciker are different from those problems to which database systems have been applied in the past.That is, the problems are usually not known in advance, they are constantly changing, and answers are needed within a short time freune.Hence, additional tech- nologies, methodologies, and approaches must expand the traditional areas