Commentary
Decision Support Systems: Present and Future
Author(s):
Lenka Lhotska*
Background: Information and communication technologies have become inevitable and an almost inseparable part of our lives. They have also penetrated many application areas including medicine.
Objectives: The paper demonstrates the importance of correctly understanding the terms data, information and knowledge that represent the core of decision support and decision making processes.
Methods: In the paper we describe the development of decision support systems from the first generation using a simple knowledge representation up to complex distributed solutions.
Results: Based on the purpose, we identify three major groups of systems, namely recommendation, decision support and deci.. Read More»
DOI: 10.24105/ejbi.2018.14.2.7