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How far and how the computer can support the decision making process?
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| Resource Type: |
document --> technical publication --> proceedings / conference paper(s)
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| Country: |
EU Projects
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| Year of publication: |
2004 |
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Deroubaix, J.F., Chouli, E., Carré, C.
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| Author 1/Producer: |
Deutsch, J.C.
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| Other Authors/Producers: |
Deroubaix, J.F., Chouli, E., Carré, C.
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| Author / Producer Type: |
EC Project
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| Format (e.g. PDF): |
PDF
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EUGRIS Keyword(s): |
Diffuse pollution-->Diffuse pollution overview
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| Short description: |
This communication does not intend to answer this question in general, but gives some
elements through an example. It is drawn from the work in the European R&D project called
DayWater (Adaptive decision support system for the integration of stormwater source control
into sustainable urban water management strategies), which addresses the problem of source
control pollution of urban stormwater in Europe. As this is an environmental problem, it
means that decision-making to implement policies and equipment is made through the
negotiation between numerous stakeholders and on different levels of the project.
During the course of development and implementation of the Adaptive Decision Support
System (ADSS), the following questions have been raised:
• Is there a similarity of the decision-making process in Europe concerning the field of
urban water management,
• What kind of distribution of knowledge must be used between the support system,
outside knowledge tools, and local knowledge of the user,
• Is the guidance of the user (through a questions and answer profile) necessary? Should
there be a pre-selection of information through profile-deducted functionalities?
• What is a suitable and attractive user interface (e.g. graphical presentation vs.
questionnaire)?
These issues are discussed on the basis of end-users characteristics. Within DayWater the endusers
are technicians involved in the promotion of source control pollution, like engineers in
sanitary, road, green space or environmental departments, urban planners or developer,
landscape architects, equipment salesmen or provider. The criteria used for characterisation
cover the following fields:
• Type of problem: general information, planning, design, implementation,
maintenance, evaluation
• Type of context: size of the city, type of urban policy, sensibility of the citizens to
environmental problems.
• Type of system: management of sewer systems.
This characterisation led to the following choices : the ADSS will offer two levels of use and
four functions.
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Submitted By:
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Dr Stefan Gödeke WhoDoesWhat?
Last update: 14/02/2006
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