Design of a Self-evolving Decision Support System

:The paper presents a self-evolving approach to decision support systems (dss) design. The basic premise of this approach is that a dss should be aware of how it is being used and, then, automatically adapt to the evolution of its users. With self-evolving capabilities, a dss will be able to provide a flexible menu hierarchy and a dynamic user interface.The major difference between the self-evolving design and a dss developed by current approaches such as system development life cycle and user-involved evolutionary design is that the former has an extra component—the evolutionary mechanism—to control the evolution of the system. In order to develop self-evolving capabilities, the following three components must be developed: (1) a database of user profiles to keep track of related system usage data, (2) a knowledge base to store rules for determining appropriate system default policy, and (3) a control mechanism to control the evolution of the system.

• 저널Journal of Management Information Systems · 4(1) · 59–82
• 토픽Advanced Database Systems and Queries · Computer Networks and Communications
• DOI10.1080/07421222.1987.11517786
• 저자Ting‐Peng Liang, Christopher Jones