期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
印刷版ISSN：1555-1229
电子版ISSN：1555-1237
出版年度：2007
卷号：2
页码：33-42
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：In this paper we will relate some of our experiences in building and using simple Decision Sup-
port Systems (DSS) for use in two postgraduate subjects at Victoria University in Melbourne.
These subjects are not about Decision Support Systems, but are Information Systems (IS) subjects
that introduce, amongst other things, concepts of decision support and DSS. It has been our ex-
perience that the complexity, an inability to examine the logic behind decisions that have been
recommended, the proprietary nature and the cost of commercial DSS make their use in teaching
less than ideal. Our solution was to produce our own simple systems using Excel, Visual Basic
and Visual Basic for Applications, and this has proved to be quite successful. The paper reports
on building and using Decision Support Systems in this way.
关键词：Decision support, university courses, postgraduate studies, business students, pro-
gramming.
