Gilmartin posted the above question on May 01‚ 2002 and my response was posted a few days later. I answered a related question in the Ask Dan! column of March 24‚ 2001 titled "What is a Group Decision Support System?" In this Ask Dan!‚ I’ll try to expand on my previous column.In general‚ group decision support systems (GDSS) are interactive‚ computer-based systems that facilitate solution of semi-structured and unstructured problems by a designated set of decision-makers working together as a group. A
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Defining Technical and Generic Skills The skills agenda have been widely debated for more than a decade (Holmes‚ 2000; Kavanagh & Drennan‚ 2008). The environment in which accountants operate today is rapidly changing due to increased competition from globalization; developments in information and communications technologies (ICT) enabled through the use of the internet (Howieson‚ 2003; Chang & Hwang 2003: 441; Pan & Perera 2012: 92). These have heightened industry and workplace expectations of professionals
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Person on Life Support Systems? The judge should have the final say in when a person should be taken off of life support‚ with two disagreeable parties. Unfortunately‚ the person on life support does not have the ability to determine when to end life support. The battle is perhaps one of the most important cases the court system has dealt with. For the first time in history‚ medical ethics have been under great inquiry. Over the past few years‚ there have been many life support cases across
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Unit 540 Lead positive behavioural support | Positive behaviour support (PBS) is an approach to providing services to individuals who exhibit challenging behaviour. Since the early 1990s‚ PBS has received increasing attention from the behaviour-analytic community. Some behaviour analysts have embraced this approach‚ but others have voiced questions and concerns. Over the past dozen
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Information Systems Analysis Topic: Decision Support Systems Uma V Devi 2009 © Role of Decision Support System for DecisionMaking Process in Global Business Environment Decision Support System: A Decision Support System is an integrated set of computer tools allowing a decision maker to interact directly with computer to retrieve information useful in making semi structured and unstructured decisions. Example of this decisions include such things as merger and acquisition decisions
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CHAPTER 3: STYLE IN TECHNICAL WRITING (Summary) Technical style is the way you write when dealing with technical subject matter. Technical writing style is distinguished by a calm‚ restrained tone‚ by an absence of any attempt to arouse emotion‚ by the use of specialized terminology‚ and by an accepted convention of the use of abbreviations‚ numbers‚ and symbols. Part I Reader Adaptation Knowing the reader and the purpose of a report permits what is generally called “reader adaptation”‚ that
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Australia‚ 12–16 December 2011 http://mssanz.org.au/modsim2011 Evaluation of environmental decision and information support tools: from adoption to outcome B.S. McIntosh a‚ b b International WaterCentre‚ Brisbane‚ Australia Smart Water Research Centre‚ Gold Coast‚ Australia Email: b.mcintosh@watercentre.org a Abstract: The value of environmental decision and information support tools (DISTs) and technologies is located in the impacts that the use of such technologies have on the behaviour
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problems (Scott Morton‚ 1971). A Decision Support System (DSS) is an umbrella term used to describe any computer application that enhances the user’s ability to make decisions. More specifically‚ the term is usually used to describe a computer-based system designed to help decision-makers use data‚ knowledge and communications technology to identify problems and make decisions to solve those problems. Since the definition of Decision Support Systems can be stretched to include almost
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Case Study #3: Decision Support‚ Artificial Intelligence‚ and B2C E-Commerce: the Case of Unilever By Dustin Allen MNGT 220-01 November 20‚ 2003 Question #1 Decision support systems‚ simply known as DSS‚ are often narrowly defined as highly flexible and interactive IT systems that are designed to support decision-making when the problem is non-structured (Haag‚ 2004). This definition expresses several keywords: support and non-structured. This means that although DSS greatly enhance
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Does Positive Behavioral Intervention Support (PBIS) affect Student Growth? July‚ 2012 Executive Summary In this paper‚ I will investigate the correlation of Positive Behavioral Intervention Support (PBIS) and the effects on students’ academic growth. Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) is a systemic approach to proactive‚ school-wide behavior based on a Response to Intervention (RtI) model. (Wisconsin PBIS Network) I believe PBIS will have a positive effect
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