The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence as a Reference Discipline for Decision Support Systems Research
探讨将人工智能正式作为决策支持系统研究参考学科的哲学和实用问题，回顾历史并展望未来，展示本期特刊论文如何代表一个新兴的决策支持系统时代。
ABSTRACT It is timely and appropriate to examine both philosophical and pragmatical issues associated with formalizing the adoption of artificial intelligence as a reference discipline for decision support systems research. This paper reflects on where we were when the first special issue of Decision Sciences on expert systems and decision support systems was published, addresses the dynamics of what has taken place subsequent to the publication of that first special issue, sets forth a proposition to stimulate ongoing dialog with respect to synergies between the decision support system research agenda and the research agenda of the artificial intelligence discipline, and demonstrates how the papers appearing in this follow‐up special issue of Decision Sciences are representative of an emerging, challenging, and exciting new decision support systems era.