Business Intelligence Approach to Support Decision Making in Publishing Sector

The article deals with decision making approach when generation of different offers for printing of books and particularly for printing of monographs. In accordance to the law for academic staff development in Republic of Bulgaria, the monograph should be at least 100 pages with 1800 signs within page. Depending on the monograph subject, different pictures, diagrams, formulas and tables may be included. All of these considerations are taken into account when generate different offers depending on the quality of printing pictures, type of paper and number of pages. To cope with such problems a framework of web-based decision support system is proposed. The three-layer architecture described web-application is capable to process the input information about the monograph contents and to generate different offers in accordance to different users' preferences.