Decision Support Systems and Services history

Semiautomatic Ground Environment (SAGE) project at M.I.T. Lincoln Lab uses first light pen; SAGE completed 1962, first data-driven DSS

The concept of decision support systems was first articulated by Michael Scott Morton in February 1964 in a basement office in Sherman Hall, Harvard Business School.

In 1965, a Stanford University research team led by Edward Feigenbaum created the DENDRAL expert system.

In 1966-67 Scott Morton had studied how computers and analytical models could help managers make a key decision.

Scott Morton's (1967) dissertation research was a pioneering implementation, definition and research test of a model-driven decision support system.

Scott Morton, M. S. and A. M. McCosh, "Terminal Costing for Better Decisions," Harvard Business Review, Volume 46, Number 3, May-June 1968.

Murray Turoff�s (1970) article introduced the concept of Computerized Conferencing.

Gorry, A. and M.S. Scott-Morton, �A Framework for Information Systems�, Sloan Management Review, 13, 1, Fall 1971, 56-79.

Mason and Mitroff (1973) �A Program of Research in Management Information Systems,� Management Science..

According to Sprague & Watson (1974), the unique contribution of DSS resulted from these key words.

By 1975, J. D. C. Little was expanding the frontiers of computer-supported modeling.

The IFIP information systems technical committee was not formed until 1976..

Donovan and Madnick (1977) classified DSS as institutional or ad hoc.

The first International Conference on Decision Support Systems was held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1981.

Buchanan, B.G. and E.H. Shortliffe (eds.): Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project, 1984.

The first volume appeared in 1985.

Bui, T. X. and M. Jarke, "Communications Design for Co-op: A Group Decision Support System." ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, 4, 2, 1986, 81-103.

Houdeshel, G. and H. Watson, "The Management Information and Decision Support (MIDS) System at Lockheed-Georgia", MIS Quarterly, 11, 1, March 1987, 127-140.

In a 1988 paper, Sharda, Barr, and McDonnell reviewed the first 15 years of model-driven DSS research.

The appearance of the World Wide Web in the early 1990's sparked a renewed interest in distributed DSS and in document- and case-libraries that continues in the early twenty-first century.

Densham, P. J. (1991) In Geographical Information Systems, Volume 1 : Principles, Volume 1 (Eds, Maguire, D. J., Goodchild, M. F. and Rhind, D. W.) Longman,, 403-412.

Inmon, W. H., "EIS and the Data Warehouse", Data Base Programming/Design, November 1992.

Muller, J.-C. (1993) Latest developments in GIS/LIS, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 7, 4, 293-303.

In 1994, many companies started to upgrade their network infrastructures.

• Sprague and Watson (1996) define a DSS as computer-based systems that help decision makers confront ill-structured problems through direct interaction with data and analysis models.

Pendse, N., "Origins of today's OLAP products," The OLAP Report, URL www.olapreport.com, 1997.

My OLAP history piece is hard to date, but 1998 is definitely not the right date.

Mennecke, B. E., Crossland, M. D. and Killingsworth, B. L. (2000) Is a map more than a picture? The role of SDSS technology, subject characteristics, and problem complexity on map reading and problem solving, MIS Quarterly, 24, 4, 601-4, 625-9.

Power, D. J., �Supporting Decision-Makers: An Expanded Framework,� In Harriger, A. (Editor), e-Proceedings Informing Science Conference, Krakow, Poland, June 19-22, 2001, 431-436 see http://proceedings.informingscience.org/IS2001Proceedings/pdf/PowerEBKSupp.pdf.

Baskerville, R., and Myers, M., �Information Systems as a Reference Discipline�, MIS Quarterly, 26, 1, 2002, 1 -14.

Meredith, Rob, and David Arnott. (2003). "On Ethics and Decision Support Systems Development." In Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 10–13 July 2003, ed.

Power, D. J., �Specifying an Expanded Framework for Classifying and Describing Decision Support Systems,� Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Volume 13, Article 13, February 2004b, 158-166.

McCosh, A. M. and B. A. Correa-Perez, "The Optimization of What?" in Gupta, J. G. Forgionne, and M. Mora, Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems: Foundations, Applications and Challenges, Springer-Verlag, 2006, 475-494.