The growing popularity of Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) has been supported by, and has given rise to, a burgeoning academic literature on GDSS since the mid-1980s. Although there is a growing body of laboratory experiment findings, the results are inconclusive. Field studies in real organization settings show all the more different results form the experimental studies. This paper systematically reviews the existing case, field, and laboratory decision room type GDSS studies. It, then, explores the plausible reasons for the inconsistent findings across the laboratory studies, and especially between field and laboratory research. It suggests five main factors for the inconsistent findings in previous GDSS research: contextual pressures, tasks, group characteristics, technical configurations, and comparability of measures.

본 논문에서는 비구조적인 의사결정문제를 효과적으로 해결하기 위하여 감독학습 인공신경망 모형과 비감독학습 인공신경망 모형을 결합한 하이브리드 인공신경망 모형인 HYNEN(HYbrid NEural Network) 모형을 제안한다. HYNEN모형은 주어진 자료를 클러스터화 하는 CNN(Clustering Neural Network)과 최종적인 출력을 제공하는 ONN(Output Neural Network)의 2단계로 구성되어 있다. 먼저 CNN에서는 주어진 자료로부터 적정한 퍼지규칙을 찾기 위하여 클러스터를 구성한다. 그리고 이러한 클러스터를 지식베이스로하여 ONN에서 최종적인 의사결정을 한다. CNN에서는 SOFM(Self Organizing Feature Map)과 LVQ(Learning Vector Quantization)를 클러스터를 만든 후 역전파학습 인공신경망 모형으로 이를 학습한다. ONN에서는 역전파학습 인공신경망 모형을 이용하여 각 클러스터의 내용을 학습한다. 제안된 HYNEN 모형을 우리나라 기업의 도산자료에 적용하여 그 결과를 다변량 판별분석법(MDA:Multivariate Discriminant Analysis)과 ACLS(Analog Concept Learning System) 퍼지 ARTMAP 그리고 기존의 역전파학습 인공신경망에 의한 실험결과와 비교하였다.

This paper develops a new approach to dealing with qualitative reasoning processes involved in managerial decisions, drawing upon choice strategies that have been developed within the general framework of multi-criteria decision making. Issues such as choices under uncertainty and preference formulation are addressed. An MCDM DSS intended to assist in high-level management decisions must focus on helping the decision maker to properly define the problem by providing a structure to it and to dynamically evaluate the alternative courses of action. A conceptual architecture is developed and presented to propose a general model for designing decision support systems specifically designed to assist in MCDM in a managerial context. A commercial loan approval judgment case is described to illustrate the real-world situation where decisions are made under fuzziness and usually require a high degree of intuition and subjective judgment. Development of a prototype system intended to partially represent application of the architecture is described.

This study investigates a special class of Inter-Organizational Systems, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems. The major objective of this research is to identify the factors that facilitate or inhibit the adoption of an EDI system. A research model is developed to investigate the research questions identified. The adoption of EDI systems is assumed to be affected by four contextual factors: 1. general characteristics of the industry in which a firm operates, 2. EDI-related industry characteristics, 3. general characteristics of the firm, and 4. information technology (IT) related firm characteristics. The findings of this study provide strong supporting evidence that most of the variables proposed and tested in the study are important factors affecting the adoption of EDI systems.

The information system control includes organizational structure, control mechanism, and management tools which contribute to accomplish the goals of information system: asset safeguarding, data integrity, effectiveness, and efficiency. Information system audit is the process to evaluate whether the information system accomplishs the goals. Information system auditor examine the reliability of information system control and suggest recommendations to improve the information system control. Both information system control and information system audit activities contribute to prevent and detect the computer crime for the organization. This paper proposes a causal model of information system control/audit and the perceived risk of computer crime, and tests the model using a survey on 38 financial institutions in Korea. Statistical results show that information system control and audit significantly reduce the computer crime risk perceived by the user group. The general control has a stronger impact than the application control. In addition, it turns out that the greater the deviation between the importance and the actual level of information system control is, the higher the perceived risk of computer crime is.

Past research linking information technology and organizational structure has been inconclusive and contradictory. The purpose of this study is to resolve some of this confusion by taking into consideration one theoretical issue and three methodological problems. The one theoretical issue is an assessment of the importance of environment as a key external variable constraining both organizational structure and the use of information technology. To date, there has been no systematic, empirical research on the conceptual linkage among all three of these variables. The three methodological issues concern measurement problems associated with (1) controlling for different levels of analysis, (2) establishing a clear operationalization of information technology, and (3) differentiating institutional and questionnaire approaches to data collection. The research results in four conclusions. First, data confirm the environment as a key external variable in the linkage between information technology and organizational structure. Second, three central dimensions of information technology are identified: Growth of Capacity, extensiveness of information technology use, and information technology sophistication. Third, in order to maximize the explanatory power of information technology on other organizational constructs, it is necessary to differentiate between the actual use of information technology as opposed to the mere presence of information technology. Fourth, carefully designed questionnaire measures reveal no significant differences from institutional measures in the assessment of key organizational constructs.

A considerable number of empirical studies have been conducted into the impact of graphical presentation of information on decision making performance. Very limited attention has been, however, devoted to the role of graphs as a means of delivering feedback. This paper investigated this issue by varying the presentation formats of outcome feedback in time series forecasting contexts. It was found that overall feedback was not decision-effective. Even enlarged and more salient feedback was of little value to overcome the conservative behavior. The results doubted the efficacy of graphical feedback in the design of EIS/DSS. Feedback did not appear to be a simple mechanism and further research is required to investigate its cognitive processes.

The necessity of installing well adaptable Information Systems are required day by day in all the fields of business management. This paper provides an Information System development for enhancing competitive power of the small and medium-sized firms in Korea. Recent growing Information Technology leads to constructing invisibly some new adaptable Information Systems in accordance with the business size, level, capacity and requirements. Even though some advanced companies and big enterprises are already operating their own appropriate Information Systems so as to get their remarkable productivity at a moment. The rest of those small firms are still trying to find out some proper systems fitting their own business in very poor situations. The basic requirements of the points of views by mail questionaired and interviewed from 1292 small and medium-sized manufacturing firms reflected on this Information System development. As a result, the study introduces some economically efficient, convinient, flexible and useful applied Information Systems with simple methods.

Complexity of some problems often transcends the problem solving capability of human individuals. As such, we cannot but take a collaborative approach to those complex problems. Collaboration while using computing systems can take place through shared objects. However, current commercial DBMSs do not provide a satisfactory control for concurrent access to objects shared by collaborators. A new concurrency control scheme is proposed which will help a group of people work in a more collaborative and natural way. The idea of softlock is refined into three different kinds of softlocks and the roles of collaborators are taken into account in the proposal of the new scheme. Although these softlocks are illustrated together with read/write hardlocks in this paper, the use of softlocks can be extended to be exploited with other kinds of hardlocks, for example, of granularity locking.

Not much attention has been paid to the characteristics of successful MIS in small business in Korea. This study compares the characteristics of successful MIS with those of less successful MIS of manufacturing industry in Korea in terms of micro level, macro level, and personal level. The micro level consists of those variables relating to the system development and maintenance while the macro level consists of the environmental variables relating to the information systems. The personal level measures a personal EDP experience. A mail survey was sent to small manufacturing companies to collect the data for the hypothesis tests. And 81 usable questionnaires were returned for data analysis. This study performs the validity of the categorization of variables in terms of three levels. The results shows that this categorization is appropriate but the personal level. As the personal experiences of EDP in Korea used to come up with those of the organization, the variables in the personal level have high correlations with those in the macro level in empirical testing. As the personal level, however, is different dimension from the macro level in theoretical aspect, the level is maintained separately throughout the study. The data were analyzed with MANOVA and two group discriminant analysis. The analyses reveal that the characteristics of successful MIS are different from those of less successful MIS in terms of three levels. And the micro level is more important than the macro level to develop successful MIS. That is because the organizations have relatively few experience in dealing with information systems, they have not developed unique information systems which are adjusted to their organizational characteristics. Those findings seems to be important determinants of success for the MIS in a firm.