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This chapter describes and clarifies the meaning of the term decision support. Taking a broad view, a classification of decision support and related disciplines is presented. Decision support is put in the context of decision making, and an overview of some of the most important disciplines within decision support is provided including: operations research, decision analysis, decision support systems, data warehousing, and group decision support. Among these, the chapter focuses on the multi-attribute modeling methodology, presenting its basic concepts, introducing the modeling tools DEX and DEXi, and describing main model development phases.
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Bohanec, M. (2003). Decision Support. In: Mladenić, D., Lavrač, N., Bohanec, M., Moyle, S. (eds) Data Mining and Decision Support. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 745. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0286-9_3
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