In bringing together this book, the editors have kept two goals in mind. Firstly, the goal of educating the reader by giving an insight into the wealth of computing and mathematical techniques now being used to build decision support systems. Secondly, of aiming to stimulate the imagination by including an eclectic mix of contributions from a wide range of business areas to demonstrate that there is no field in which modern decision support techniques cannot usefully be applied. The quintessence of decision support systems is that they are designed to assist people in establishing the best course of action in a given situation but not to automate or tell them prescriptively how to achieve a goal.
- ISBN13 9780412751509
- Publish Date 30 June 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Chapman and Hall
- Edition 1996 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 228
- Language English