Participation and learning in DSS development

Shaun G Coffey (shauncoffey@bigpond.com)

Address to the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science: Indianapolis, Indiana, July 23-25 1999

Introduction

The topic I am going to discuss was not of my choosing, but suggested by the organizers of this symposium. I say this because I do not think that I can make any significant contribution to the serious problems involved. I nevertheless accepted the invitation to speak about it because I believe that in this respect we are all more or less in the same boat. I take it that our topic is a kind of euphemism for the issue of better returns for our R, D & E dollar. But I shall try to approach our topic with some wider issues in mind. Essentially, the challenge is to answer the question “why have computer-based decision support tools?”, and to set the scene for a discussion on how to better develop and use DSS. A recent review by Lynch et al. (1999)......

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