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Decision Support Systems

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Making decisions regarding complex systems often challenges our cognitive capabilities, particularly when multiple interdependent variables are involved. Decision Support Systems (DSSs) have emerged as essential tools to enhance human decision-making by integrating various information sources and employing formal methods. This article outlines the characteristics and components of DSSs, discusses how they support modeling decision problems, and introduces the concept of decision-analytic DSSs while emphasizing the significance of user interfaces in improving decision quality.

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