Computer Aided Decision Support in Telecommunications

In bringing together this book, the editors have kept two goals in mind. Firstly, the goal of educating the reader by giving an insight into the wealth of computing and mathematical techniques now being used to build decision support systems. Secondly, of aiming to stimulate the imagination by including an eclectic mix of contributions from a wide range of business areas to demonstrate that there is no field in which modern decision support techniques cannot usefully be applied. The quintessence of decision support systems is that they are designed to assist people in establishing the best course of action in a given situation but not to automate or tell them prescriptively how to achieve a goal.

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Preface. An overview of computer-aided decision support. Data mining applications. Data mining - tools and techniques. Visualization techniques for data mining. New directions in investment appraisal. Information access for decision makers. A knowledge-based system for configuration and pricing of network management systems. A new approach to contract specification. Decision support for service provisioning. A graphical tool for bill design. Planning beneficial and profitable network upgrade paths. An introduction to group decision making and group decision support systems.