Decision Support

The paper proposes an overview of decision support systems in order to define the role of a system to assist decision in university management. The authors present new technologies and the basic concepts of multidimensional data analysis using models of business processes within the universities. Based on information provided by scientific literature and on the authors’ experience, the study aims to define selection criteria in choosing a development environment for designing a support system dedicated to university management. The contributions consist in designing a data warehouse model and models of OLAP analysis to assist decision in university management.

This project explored functional requirements for an institution-wide method, at Partners HealthCare, for interpreting clinical knowledge for decision support. Such knowledge is currently incorporated in a variety of clinical applications, yet the methods of representation and of execution vary and the ability to author/edit the rules by human experts is limited. We expanded on a 2002 "Knowledge Inventory" at Partners to evaluate feasibility of designing a single representation approach entailing: (a) exploration of specific needs of different applications, in terms of kinds of response required (synchronous/asynchronous, time criticality, etc.), context (e.g., implied patient, time frame, or episode), and kinds of actions to be triggered; (b) kind of representation of knowledge and feasibility of casting knowledge in the form of if em leader then statements; and (c) data and knowledge resources used (implied data model, and particular knowledge sources and terminology sou...

ABSTRACT A data warehouse provides information for analytical processing, decision making and data mining tools. As the concept of real-time enterprise evolves, the synchronism between transactional data and data warehouses, statically implemented, has been redefined. ...

Title: Gap acceptance for vehicles turning left across on-coming traffic: Implications for Intersection Decision Support design ... Author: Ragland, David R, UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Arroyo, Sofia, UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center Shladover, Steven E., California PATH ...

A building must be energy-efficient and provide comfortable indoor environment to the residents. The Building Energy Code of Pakistan (BECP) only focuses on commercial buildings. In today’s scenario a standard must include the context and climate considerations. The aim of this study is to improve indoor thermal comfort of free-running houses in Quetta, Pakistan and raise the awareness of builders about climate sensitivity.