Internet computing on decision support systems

Decision-making is one of the most important activities for human beings. Complex decision-making problems are full of uncertainties and ambiguities. Research about decision support systems has been proposed to help people effectively solve this kind of problems. In this paper, we attempt to propose a framework of Internet computing on decision support systems by modifying traditional decision support systems on World Wide Web. Ten modules of the proposed framework, including request, request converter, task dispatcher, database management systems, databases, model base management system, model bases, presentation converter, presentation, and security are designed to meet the requirement of Internet computing. A prototype implementation was conducted to show the feasibility of the proposed method.