Processes and Tools for Decision Support

The change in description of Decision Support Systems (DSS) from "concept" through "movement" to "bandwagon" clearly illustrates the growing interest in the managerial as well as in the research field for decision support systems in their different manifestations. One may expect that a conference on processes and tools for decision support brings together people from practice and research, whose experiences give insight in the direction the bandwagon is likely to go. This brings us to the question how expertise on processes and tools for decision support can be stored in such a way that one can get advice when developing future DSS. This asks for the definition and construction of a knowledge base, into which the expertise can be brought. In section 2 of this book, the authors address possible frameworks for such a knowledge base. In section 3 they place the papers presented into the chosen framework. Finally an attempt to make inferences from the contributed papers is made

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Conflict in northern Arnhem Land

The thesis is a study of disputes among the Gidjingali and neigh­bouring peoples of northern Arnhem Land. Chapter 1 outlines the demographic, ecological, and historical background, and I follow this with a brief account of the conditions under which I carried out fieldwork. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 present the main features of Gidjingali social organization: land-owning units and residential associations are dealt with in Chapter 2, organization for ritual purposes in Chapter 3, and the system of kinship and marriage in Chapter 4» Chapters 5 and. 6 give a classification and analysis of conflict - in the former those relating to the acquisition of wives; in the latter those over property, adultery, insult, and injury. Chapter 7 is an analysis of social control among the Gidjingali considered in the light of statements that have been made about Aboriginal government and political organization.Includes article Local organization among the Australian aborigines by the author from Oceania, v.32, no.