Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems (7th Edition)

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Summary: The worse text book ever
Review: I am currently using this textbook for my undergraduate course. The whole class complains on how the books gives one definition for one thing and then turn around and provide a totally diffent definition. We all find it really difficult to concentrate reading this book, when there is no color or any outlines to go by.

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Summary: A MUST READ!!!
Review: I found this book to be extremely insightful and helped me in understanding DSS's. The authors must be commended on their style and logical approach to this textbook. The book successfully take a complex system and presents it in an interesting format with real-world examples. I would recommend it to anyone interested in learning about DSS's.

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Summary: What the heck are you talking about!
Review: Indeed, it is verbose. Many URLs are either out of date or incorrect. I read it as my grad text. Not much help but a lot of confusion. The book is not well organized in offering pertaining information. I expected bullet listing the softwares used for KM, ES shell etc.

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Summary: Some good content, but hard to get to
Review: Our class recently used this as a textbook for a graduate program. The entire class commented on how difficult the book was to read. With all of the notations within the text and the short stories or sometimes explanations of material it was hard to pick out the content. There were parts of chapter 17 that bordered on un-readable. Someone need to find a better was to layout the book. And why are there questions for review and question for discussion? I didn't see the point in splitting them up.

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Summary: decision support systems & intelligent systems
Review: There is a need for such a book as its subject elements are eclectic in nature. Some integration effort exist in this edition but is far from being completed. By trying to be up-to date the book takes a form of a poor encyclopedia. It would have been much better to reduce the explosion of concepts to concetrate on few that are generic with well developped examples and illustrations. So at the end the student will say "yes I understand". The conclusion today is by most of my students "too [much money] "

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Summary: Verbose without clarity - a "0" for this waste of paper
Review: This book clearly conveys all the relevant knowledge about Decision Support Systems. The book is detailed and well-written. Additionally, it helps non-IT persons such as me gain a firm grasp about DSS.
Thanks Aronson

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Summary: Excellent reference, thick college text
Review: This is a textbook appropriate for a college-level course at the upper division or graduate level. It gives very thorough coverage of the entire field in one book, and most students really like the book in satisfaction questionnaires, but some feel overwhelmed until after the material is covered in class. I focus on specific chapters or sections of chapters for a single-semester course.

It is an excellent reference for key elements of DSS and related systems. I've followed it through several editions, and when new chapters are introduced, they may be verbose--but they are more focused in later editions. The authors do a good job of describing how computer-based systems support structured, semi-structured, and unstructured decisions and the design, intelligence, and choice framework. The book also has several good general chapters that provide an overview and describe different types of decision support systems. It includes sections on object-oriented systems and knowledge management (KM) systems. It is pretty theoretical and covers a lot of material, yet it's my favorite text for its purpose.

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Summary: The Definitive Source for Decision Support Systems
Review: This is the best written text on decision support systems; it does a great job of explaining and integrating energing technologies. The examples and illustrations highlight the chapter material very effectively.

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Summary: throw it into the trash
Review: Used it for school, found it dry, boring, ugly. I got frustrated every time I picked up the book. Really want to throw it into the trash if not for the resell value.