The Paradigms for the Inquiry in Decision Support System (DSS) and a Design Framework of Cognitive DSS

Research paradigm plays an important role in the study of decision support system (DSS). Currently most researches in DSS heavily rely on positivist paradigm while other paradigms are ignored. Firstly this paper compares the paradigms for the inquiry in DSS. Then we propose a design framework of cognitive DSS based on dialectic pluralist paradigm. Some major components of the system and the design of key recommendation algorithm are introduced.