Decision Support Systems: Types, Advantages and Disadvantages

by Frances J. Roberts

"A decision support system (DSS) is a computer program used to support determinations, judgments, and courses of action in an organization or business. Chapter One provides an overview of model-driven DSSs and the utility and limits of these systems in real estate. Chapter Two reviews, classifies, and compares the DSSs for fund raising management with particular reference to the different considered approaches, the mathematical methods employed, the specific considered parts of the process, the requirements and the conclusions of the related studies, the applications utilized by non-profit organizations, the complexity and the usability of the systems, the numerical achieved results, and possible further developments. Chapter Three describes a DSS for vocational training organizations based on the Choquet integral, a well-founded and widely used technique for multicriteria decision making"--

169 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2021

About the author

Frances J. Roberts was a prolific Christian author and musician best known for her devotional classic Come Away My Beloved, which has sold over a million copies and been translated into multiple languages. In 1964, she founded The King’s Press, where she wrote and published nine devotional books over three decades.
A graduate of Moody Bible Institute, she served as Florida’s state director for Child Evangelism Fellowship and wrote the popular Wordless Book Song during that time. A gifted musician, she composed eighty-eight published hymns and worked as a church accompanist. Her ministry work also included teaching at a Spanish mission school and contributing to music ministries across various congregations.