Decision Support System Case Study

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Challenges and opportunities of Decision Support System (DSS) in information field by Nor Artika binti Monir Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Kedah ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ Abstract: Keywords: 1.0 INTRODUCTION Decision is the result or resolution that has been chosen from a variety of alternatives provided. It also related with the activity on how to decide or making decision in solve the problem. Decision theory is the theory on how users making decision through application or system. There are three types of perspective that involved in decision theory which are descriptive decision theory, prescriptive decision theory and normative decision theory. Descriptive decision theory means the theory on how users make decision through their…show more content…
Decision Support System (DSS) is the collection of people, procedures, software, database and devices that organized when making decision or solve problem (Ralph & George, 2011). DSS is more focusing on the effective decision making when facing semi-structured or unstructured problem happened in information field. According to Ralph and George (2011), the characteristics of Decision Support System (DSS) are allows users to access information faster and accurately, can conduct many data in variety of sources, support in decision making and so on. There are several types of components in Decision Support System (DSS), which are the database, the model base and the user interface or dialogue manager (Ralph & George,…show more content…
Next, the author started the conceptual paper with the introduction and methodology. The introduction for conceptual paper based on the general information about the Decision Theory and Decision Support System while the methodology is the process how the author doing this paper. After the author feel satisfied with the points from the article, the author started to write the conceptual paper entitle, “Challenges and opportunities of Decision Support System (DSS) in information field”. There are five challenges and opportunity of Decision Support Support that the author found from the article. In the end, the author completes the conceptual paper with the 2047 words. Then, the author print out the individual assignment and submit it in the submission date. The submission date for this individual asssignment of subject Decision Theory (IMS 555), is 11th June
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