**Meet the editor**

Chiang S. Jao, Ph.D., is a chief biomedical informaticist at Tranformation Inc., based in Maryland. He has been involved in medical informatics since he joined the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992 to work on clinical decision support systems. His research was awarded with a grant from National Patient Safety Foundation in investigating the matching of prescribing medications

and clinical problems in electronic heath records. He acted as the visiting scholar in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine and built a standard drug-problem database based on authoritative information from approved drug package sources. He has extensive experience as a software consultant for healthcare institutions. He has edited two series of books in decision support systems. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Biomedical Applications 1**

Ciang Chang

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Chapter 1 **Whether Moving Suicide Prevention Toward Social**

**Care and Intensive Care Medicine 17**

**by a Histological Diagnosis Model 51**

Kaya Kuru and Yusuf Tunca

**Virtual Enterprise (DSS-VE) 91**

Chapter 6 **Optimal Control of Integrated Production – Forecasting System 117** R. Hedjar, L. Tadj and C. Abid

Gabriela Prelipcean and Mircea Boscoianu

**Section 2 Business Applications 89**

Chapter 2 **Decision Support Systems in Medicine - Anesthesia, Critical**

Thomas M. Hemmerling, Fabrizio Cirillo and Shantale Cyr

L.W.D. van Raamsdonk, S. van der Vange, M. Uiterwijk and M. J.

**Decision Making Process: Hybrid Decision Support Systems for**

Chapter 3 **Reliability and Evaluation of Identification Models Exemplified**

Chapter 4 **Diagnostic Decision Support System in Dysmorphology 67**

Chapter 5 **Emerging Applications of the New Paradigm of Intelligent**

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

**Networking: A Decision Support Process with XREAP Tool 3** Po-Hsun Cheng, Heng-Shuen Chen, Wen-Chen Chiang and Hsin-
