Decision Support Systems which have been typical singleuser systems for most of the decade of their existence, arenow evolving into tools for supporting groups of decisionmakers. Thus, they are merging into the mainstream of officeinformation systems. Communication among multiple decisionmakers...

The formulation of complex planning models, such as linearprogramming (LP) systems, is a difficult task that enjoys little supportby current decision support systems tools. It is hypothesized thatcurrent artificial intelligence technology is insufficient to buildgeneralized formulation tools...

A number of DSS for supporting decisions by more than one person have beenproposed. These can be categorized by spatial distance (local vs. remote),temporal distance (meeting vs. mailing), commonality of goals (cooperationvs. bargaining), and control (democratic vs. hierarchical)....