Enterprise decision support using Intranet technology

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-134

  Ba, Sulin ^a   Lang, Karl R ^b   Whinston, Andrew B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic model building; Decision support systems; Enterprise modeling; Intranets; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; USER INTERFACES;

ENTERPRISE DECISION SUPPORT; INTRANET TECHNOLOGY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031166812     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(96)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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