Article ID: | iaor19952194 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 46 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 315 |
End Page Number: | 331 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Bell P.C., Chau P.Y.K. |
Keywords: | simulation |
This paper addresses the design of effective simulation-based decision support systems (DSS). An experiment was conducted using three different DSS tools developed around three types of simulation model-traditional, conventional visual interactive simulation (VIS), and ‘paired-systems’ VIS. Subjects were asked to perform a decision making task and their performance was evaluated. Subjects who used the DSS based on a ‘pair systems’ VIS model were found to be both the most effective and the most efficient at the problem-solving task. Subjects provided with the DSS based upon a conventional VIS model were found to be more effective at the task than the group provided with the traditional simulation-based DSS.