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Chapter 3 Decision Support Model (IUWS-DSM) - Tubdok

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<strong>Chapter</strong> 1 · General Introduction 5<br />

50 years of researches result in that many different scientific branches of DSS have been<br />

developed and crossed over. Arnott and Pervan (2005) traced the evolution of the DSS field<br />

from its radical beginnings to a complex disciplinary structure of partially connected subfields<br />

(Figure 2).<br />

Figure 2: The evolution of the DSS field (Arnott and Pervan, 2005)<br />

Power (2004) categorised DSS into five broad groups: communications-driven, datadriven,<br />

document-driven, knowledge-driven and model-driven decision support systems.<br />

Especially, model-driven DSS use limited data and parameters provided by decision makers<br />

to aid decision makers in analyzing a situation, but in general large data bases are not<br />

needed for model-driven DSS (Power 2002), so it is chosen for building up our model.<br />

Regarding the generic architecture of DSS, Holsapple (2008) identified four essential<br />

components, i.e. 1. language system, 2. presentation system, 3. knowledge system, and 4.<br />

problem-processing system, which together structure the DSS. Subsequently, different types<br />

of DSS are derived (Figure 3).

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