DSS News
D. J. Power, Editor
August 7, 2011 -- Vol. 12, No. 16
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In this issue:
1) What is decision automation?
2) Recent DSS News Headlines
3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) What is decision automation?
by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Decision automation is a deceptively simple and intriguingly
complex concept. On the surface the idea is that a computer
program is making decisions. A decision automation system is
NOT a decision support system. Rather a decision automation system
eliminates the need for a human decision maker in a programmed
decision situation. Business rules and programmed instructions
are trigered by events and contingent choices are made. The greatly
expanded and evolving computing infrastructure makes it increasingly
cost effective to apply decision automation in situations where
that had been prohibitively costly.
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
08/03/2011 Teradata creates innovative ‘first’ for social
services: state health & human services and medicaid
logical data model.
08/02/2011 Powerful analytics give fleets bold new advantages
in Teletrac's Fleet Director 8.5.
07/29/2011 Web conferencing and online meeting accessible to
everybody.
07/28/2011 Netherlands-based insurance company accelerates
claims process; improves customer satisfaction with EMC
Documentum xCP.
07/27/2011 SAP and Google team to put "Big Data" on the map.
Read the news at DSSResources.COM
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3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
3.1. 2011 DSI Annual Meeting November 19-22, 2011 at the Boston
Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts.
Check http://www.decisionsciences.org/conferences/default.asp
3.2. Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence track at
ICIS 2011, Shanghai, China December 4-7, 2011.
Check http://icis2011.aisnet.org/track16.htm
3.3. Call for papers: DSS’2012 – 16th IFIP WG8.3 International
Conference on Decision Support Systems, Anávissos, Greece,
June 28-30 2012.
Check http://dssresources.com/news/3303.php
3.4. Call for papers: European Journal of Information Systems,
Special Issue on Transforming Decision-Making Processes:
The Next IS Frontier, due February 1, 2012.
Check http://dssresources.com/news/3311.php
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