Model Based Decision Support Systems

More and more powerful tools are available to construct a DSS. Although the situation is improving for the professional domain user continuously, there is still a problem of one tool not providing all the functionality needed for the application in question. For example, the databases have extensive facilities for the handling of data but usually have limited modelling facilities. Subsequently it is important that the tools are of an ‘open design’ type so that they can be connected with each other as desired by the user.