This new edition features chapters on data integration, data management, and data cleansing and transformation. Case studies are be added, and there is an updated product-specific appendix. A CD-ROM is included that contains demo versions of various data warehousing tools. (view table of contents)

Product Description: One response to the current crisis in medicine -- indicated by large variations in practice and skyrocketing costs -- has been a call for the rationalizing of medical practice through decision-support techniques. These tools, which include protocols, decision analysis, and expert systems, have generated much debate...read more

Product Description: In bringing together this book, the editors have kept two goals in mind. Firstly, the goal of educating the reader by giving an insight into the wealth of computing and mathematical techniques now being used to build decision support systems...read more

CyberQuest is a multimedia software and hardware system created to assist such areas as problem solving, strategic planning, design and more general innovation support. It is intended to help individuals and groups in industry and government come up with ideas and ways to implement them. The book's goals are to describe the nature of this new concept of a problem solving and innovation support and to capture and generalize on many of the experiences that have assisted the author in this endeavor to create CyberQuest. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text focuses on approaches to computer-assisted medical decision-making. A feature of the book is that a specific problem in medical decision-making has been selected from the literature, with each contributed chapter presenting a different approach to the solution of the same problem...read more

Product Description: Brings together the results from prominent American, European and Japanese laboratories and projects. Contains in-depth explanations for underlying principles, accentuating concrete examples, actual problems and applications. Describes hands-on tools and techniques such as details of implementing software packages on PCs, networks, single processor machines and high-speed parallel and optical systems; the amount of processing required; simulation runs; results and performance measurements...read more

Product Description: Das Buch behandelt Moglichkeiten und Wege, Entscheidungstrager in Unternehmen auf allen Management-Ebenen computerbasiert zu unterstutzen. Dabei geht es weniger um die Rationalisierung bekannter Arbeitsablaufe, sondern vielmehr um die Nutzung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien bei der Bewaltigung komplexer, wenig strukturierter Problemstellungen...read more

Product Description: This proceedings volume aims to consolidate current knowledge of research into the many fields of DSS, and to identify key issues which should be incorporated into the future research agenda. The main themes of this volume include: DSS for distributed decision processes, Embedding knowledge in DSS, and DSS and organizational change...read more

Product Description: Identifies obstacles to effective DSS processing, demonstrating how database machines provide efficient and potent paths around these obstructions. Using Teradata as an example, it explains the benefit of database devices, how they support atomic level data, manage large amounts of data, expand economically as atomic data level grows and how they access such diverse systems as DB2 and LANs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)