DSS News
D. J. Power, Editor
January 8, 2012 Vol. 13, No. 1
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1) How do predictive analytics support decision making?
2) Recent DSS News Headlines
3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) How do predictive analytics support decision making?
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by Dan Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
Predictive analytics is a general term for using simple
and complex models to support anticipatory decision making.
Analysis of historical data is used to build a predictive
model to support a specific decision task. The decision task
may be determining who to target in a marketing campaign,
what products to stock, possibility of fraud, or who the
"best" customers are for a firm. Using historical data,
predictor variables are identified for building quantitative
or business rule models. The model makes a prediction for
a decision task.
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
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01/05/2012 Insurance Administrative Solutions (IAS) launches eApplication platform to issue Medicare supplement policies in as little as 12 minutes. Check release.
01/05/2012 IEEE experts predict 12 consumer technology trends for 2012. Check release.
01/04/2012 Practice Fusion's top-rated e-Prescribing software gets a doctor-driven makeover. Check release.
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3) Upcoming DSS Conferences/Call for Papers
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1. Call for IS/T book proposals.
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2. 4th KES International Conference on
Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT-2012),
23-25 May 2012, Gifu, Japan.
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3. Call for papers: DSS’2012 – 16th IFIP WG8.3 International
Conference on Decision Support Systems, Anávissos, Greece,
June 28-30 2012.
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4. Call for papers: European Journal of Information Systems,
Special Issue on Transforming Decision-Making Processes:
The Next IS Frontier, due February 1, 2012.
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5. Call for papers: 20th European Conference on
Information Systems (ECIS 2012), Track: "Business
Intelligence and Knowledge Management", Barcelona,
Spain June 10-13, 2012.
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