Title: DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCE SHARING SIMULATION SYSTEM (RSSS) : A COMPUTERIZED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LIBRARY RESOURCE SHARING NETWORKS
Abstract:Gives a historical perspective of libraries in industrially advanced countries developing complicated methods in order to meet the crisis, proliferation of publications, shrinking budgets and inflatio...Gives a historical perspective of libraries in industrially advanced countries developing complicated methods in order to meet the crisis, proliferation of publications, shrinking budgets and inflationary trends. Discusses the complex and turbulent management problems in operating a network. As the problems do not yield to algorithmic solutions, they are best handled heuristically. However a heuristic decision process is a result of bounded rationality, introducing a break down of the manager's cognitive process when information demand of the management problem exceeds its information capacity. A computerised decision support system may improve heuristics. The paper describes a computerised decision support system developed by the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh. This system works with modelling and simulation techniques to address the management problems associated with networking. Specific questions pertaining to economics of information transfer based on values, relating to the major relevant local vis-a-vis network parameters are also discussed.Read More
Publication Year: 1984
Publication Date: 1984-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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