| Publisher | Victoria University | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 872.1KB PDF | Date added | 05 Apr 2007 |
| Topics | Decision Support - DW Front End, Application Development | ||
| Downloads | 38 | ||
This paper relates some of the experiences in building and using simple Decision Support Systems (DSS) for use in two postgraduate subjects at Victoria University in Melbourne. These subjects are not about Decision Support Systems, but are Information Systems (IS) subjects that introduce, amongst other things, concepts of decision support and DSS. It experience the complexity, an inability to examine the logic behind decisions that have been recommended, the proprietary nature and the cost of commercial DSS make their use in teaching less than ideal. The author's solution was to produce their own simple systems using Excel, Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications, and this has proved to be quite successful.
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