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Developing Intelligent Decision Support Systems: A Bipartite Approach

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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2003)

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The construction of an intelligent decision support system borrows concepts from two fields: software engineering and knowledge engineering. Yet the development processes of the purely technical components of the system and of the knowledge base of the DSS are very different in terms of development time, paradigms, tools, technical evolutions and the expertise required by the developer. In this paper, we propose an innovative approach taking these fundamental differences into consideration. The novelty of this bipartite approach lies in the clear and generic separation between the container of the DSS (responsible for the software engineering part) and the contents of the DSS (responsible for the knowledge engineering part).

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Faucigny 2, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland

    Alexandre Gachet & Pius Haettenschwiler

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  1. Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, Parks Road, OXI 3QD, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Vasile Palade

  2. Centre for SMART Systems, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, BN2 4GJ, Brighton, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  3. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Adelaide, Australia

    Lakhmi Jain

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Gachet, A., Haettenschwiler, P. (2003). Developing Intelligent Decision Support Systems: A Bipartite Approach. In: Palade, V., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45226-3_13

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