Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
System R: relational approach to database management
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
The New Science of Management Decision
The New Science of Management Decision
Operating Systems
Proceedings of the workshop on virtual computer systems
Sharing data and services in a virtual machine system
SOSP '75 Proceedings of the fifth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
SEQUEL: A structured English query language
SIGFIDET '74 Proceedings of the 1974 ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) workshop on Data description, access and control
Hierarchical approach to computer system integrity
IBM Systems Journal
A blackboard architecture for the decision support process
SIGBDP '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGBDP conference on Trends and directions in expert systems
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Institutional and ad hoc DSS and their effective use
ACM SIGMIS Database - Proceedings of a conference on Decision Support Systems, Santa Clara, California, January 24-26, 1977
Data management for decision support systems
ACM SIGMIS Database - Selected papers on decision support systems from the 13th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A multilevel design architecture for decision support systems
ACM SIGMIS Database
Extending SQL with graph matching and set covering for decision support applications
Journal of Management Information Systems
Database machine architecture in the context of information technology evolution
VLDB '77 Proceedings of the third international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 3
Decision support in a distributed environment
AFIPS '84 Proceedings of the July 9-12, 1984, national computer conference and exposition
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Traditional intuitive methods of decision-making are no longer adequate to deal with the complex problems faced by the modern policymaker. Thus systems must be developed to provide the information and analysis necessary for the decisions which must be made. These systems are called decision support systems. Although database systems provide a key ingredient to decision support systems, the problems now facing the policymaker are different from those problems to which database systems have been applied in the past. The problems are usually not known in advance, they are constantly changing, and answers are needed quickly. Hence additional technologies, methodologies, and approaches must expand the traditional areas of database and operating systems research (as well as other software and hardware research) in order for them to become truly effective in supporting policymakers.This paper describes recent work in this area and indicates where future work is needed. Specifically the paper discusses: (1) why there exists a vital need for decision support systems; (2) examples from work in the field of energy which make explicit the characteristics which distinguish these decision support systems from traditional operational and managerial systems; (3) how an awareness of decision support systems has evolved, including a brief review of work done by others and a statement of the computational needs of decision support systems which are consistent with contemporary technology; (4) an approach which has been made to meet many of these computational needs through the development and implementation of a computational facility, the Generalized Management Information System (GMIS); and (5) the application of this computational facility to a complex and important energy problem facing New England in a typical study within the New England Energy Management Information System (NEEMIS) Project.