14.4 Four Main Tasks of Decision Support Systems
Decision support consists of assisting decision makers in making a decision. Today, many commercial software programs (such as Decision Lens®, TreePlan®, and Logical Decisions®) provide decision support systems by implementing some form of automation to support the decision-making process.* The goal of these systems is to enhance the efficiency of decision makers by providing tools to quantitatively and qualitatively explore a space of alternatives for single or multiple decisions.
In constructing a decision support system (DSS) for architecture, it is useful to characterize the tasks. We assert that the task of Simon’s Design Activity applied to architecture can be described by four “layers”: ...
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