**Preface XI Section 1 Biomedical Applications 1** Chapter 1 **Whether Moving Suicide Prevention Toward Social Networking: A Decision Support Process with XREAP Tool 3** Po-Hsun Cheng, Heng-Shuen Chen, Wen-Chen Chiang and Hsin-Ciang Chang Chapter 2 **Decision Support Systems in Medicine - Anesthesia, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 17** Thomas M. Hemmerling, Fabrizio Cirillo and Shantale Cyr Chapter 3 **Reliability and Evaluation of Identification Models Exemplified by a Histological Diagnosis Model 51** L.W.D. van Raamsdonk, S. van der Vange, M. Uiterwijk and M. J. Groot Chapter 4 **Diagnostic Decision Support System in Dysmorphology 67** Kaya Kuru and Yusuf Tunca **Section 2 Business Applications 89** Chapter 5 **Emerging Applications of the New Paradigm of Intelligent Decision Making Process: Hybrid Decision Support Systems for Virtual Enterprise (DSS-VE) 91** Gabriela Prelipcean and Mircea Boscoianu Chapter 6 **Optimal Control of Integrated Production – Forecasting System 117** R. Hedjar, L. Tadj and C. Abid

#### **Section 3 Technological Applications in Management and Forecast 141**


Preface

Pacing through second decade of the 21th century, more computer users are widely adopting technology-based tools and information-enriched databases to focus on supporting managerial decision making, reducing preventable faults and improving outcome forecasting. The goal of decision support systems (DSS) is to develop and deploy information technology-based systems in supporting efficient practice in multidiscipline domains. This book aims to portray a pragmatic perspective of applying DSS in the 21th century. It covers diverse applications of DSS, primarily focusing on the resource management and outcome forecast. Our goal was to provide the broad understanding of

DSS and illustrate their practical applications in a variety of fields related to real life.

**Chiang Jao**

Chief Biomedical Informaticist,

Tranformation Inc, USA


Connor Wright, Christine W. Chan and Paul Laforge
