Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that all businesses carefully validate their business objectives, requirements, and...

Examines the developments in the decision support system (DSS) field. This book features articles from an international group of contributors that offer perspectives and presentations on advances in the foundations of DSS, DSS development, DSS usage evaluation, and DSS applications.