By Tung X. Bui (auth.), Gregory E. Kersten, Zbigniew Mikolajuk, Anthony Gar-On Yeh (eds.)

In fresh years, a lot paintings has been performed in formulating and clarifying the concept that of sustainable improvement and comparable theoretical and study matters. Now, the problem has shifted to designing and stimulating methods of potent making plans and decision-making, in any respect degrees of human job, in this type of approach as to accomplish neighborhood and international sustainable improvement. details expertise will help greatly in attaining sustainable improvement by means of delivering well-designed and helpful instruments for selection makers. One such instrument is the choice help approach, or DSS.
This e-book explores the world of DSS within the context of sustainable improvement. As DSS is a really new method, in particular within the constructing international, this ebook will function a reference textual content, basically for managers, govt officers, and knowledge execs in constructing international locations. It covers the concept that of sustainable improvement, defines DSS and the way it may be utilized in the making plans and administration of sustainable improvement, and examines the state-of-the-art in DSS use. different readers will contain scholars, academics, and analysts in info sciences; DSS designers, builders, and implementors; and foreign improvement agencies.

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Indicators of Sustainable Development: Framework of Methodologies, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, New York: United Nations. 2 DECISION MAKING AND DECISION SUPPORT Gregory E. Kersten 1. Introduction Agenda 21, the Brudtland Report and other seminal documents discussed earlier in Chapter 1 provide a number of frameworks for the development and implementation of information systems methods and technologies to aid and support development decisions. There is a great demand for information and tools that facilitate making well informed decisions, assist in evaluating and analyzing their direct results and indirect implications, and provide strong basis for subsequent decisions.

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This type of support, however, may be initiated by the user but it may also origi- 40 Decision Making and Decision Support nate with the the system itself. A routine analysis conducted, for example, by on-line analytic processing may indicate the existence of a problem and invoke an extensive data analysis with statistical and other data mining techniques leading to model construction and problem formulation. Only at this stage will the decision maker may enter the process of finding a solution to the problem.

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