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Synergizing the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Research Streams: Over a Decade of Progress with New Challenges on the Horizon

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Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems

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Over the past two decades, the convergence of artificial intelligence and decision support technologies has driven individual, team, and organizational computing research and practice in exciting new directions. In 1992, Goul, et al. examined the patterns of a decade of progress and developed propositions regarding the direction and impact of intelligent decision support systems. A decade later, the propositions from 1992 have proven an insightful roadmap for breakthroughs in the individual, team, and organizational streams of intelligent decision support research. In this chapter, we reflect on the patterns of progress over the last ten years, compare them with the propositions put forth in 1992, and offer new perspectives based on an emerging stream in the literature base: intelligent interorganizational decision support. Interorganizational support represents the next generation of intelligent decision support, and the new domain brings with it new challenges and opportunities. We look to patterns in both the maturing streams of individual, team, and organizational intelligent decision support, as well as those emerging in the new interorganizational stream, to propose direction for and identify significant challenges to be addressed in future work as intelligent decision support research enters its third decade.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874606, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4606, USA

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Nichols, J., Goul, M. (2006). Synergizing the Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Research Streams: Over a Decade of Progress with New Challenges on the Horizon. In: Intelligent Decision-making Support Systems. Decision Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-231-4_3

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