Decision Support System for Improving the Locational Efficiency of Service Systems, Award in U.S. and Indian Currencies

描述：该项目支持爱荷华州爱荷华市爱荷华大学地理系Gerard Rushton博士和印度班加罗尔管理学院(IIMB)Vinod Tewari博士的联合研究，以开发和测试决策支持系统，以提高适用于印度农村地区的服务系统的位置效率。具体而言，该小组将：确定决策过程，并参照样本研究地区选定的服务系统分析决策者的需求；制定分析程序，优化资源分配模式；以微型计算机系统的形式开发用于分析的互动软件；以互动模式评价备选模式；并将学者、规划者和决策者聚集在一起，完善决策支持系统并协助其传播。该项目应有助于提高卫生服务、银行服务、教育和其他消耗大量公共资源的部门的质量。此外，这项研究还应增加对发展中国家农村服务提供系统绩效的了解，并帮助确定服务提供系统的一般特征，并为专家系统制定比目前任何现有系统都更合适的规则。范围：爱荷华大学设有国际合作研究中心和地理系，每个中心都有优秀的资源，包括具有相关国际经验的工作人员以及在这一领域进行研究的学者。印度信息管理研究所有一项任务和所需的设施，在为印度情况设计新系统方面发挥重要作用，并就计算机辅助决策和信息系统的最新发展对管理人员进行培训。这两个研究所的合作将有助于该项目的成功，并产生具有科学效益和相关应用的有意义的成果。

Description: This project supports a joint research by Dr. Gerard Rushton, Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa and Dr. Vinod Tewari, Indian School of Management Bangalore (IIMB), India to develop and test a decision-support system for improving the locational efficiency of service systems appropriate to rural areas in India. Specifically the team will: Identify the decision-making process and analyze the needs of the decision-makers with reference to selected service systems in a sample study area; develop an analysis procedure with optimizing models for resources allocation; develop interactive software for the analysis in the form of a micro-computer based system; evaluate alternative models in an interactive mode; and bring together scholars, planners and decision-makers to refine the decision-support system and to assist in its dissemination. The project should lead to enhancing the quality of health services, banking services, education and other sectors that consume large public resources. In addition the study should increase the knowledge of the performance of rural service delivery systems in developing countries and help define the generic features of service delivery systems and develop rules for expert systems that will be more appropriate than any existing at present. Scope: The University of Iowa has a Center for International Cooperative Studies and Department of Geography each of which has excellent resources including staff with relevant international experience as well as scholars who are conducting research in this field. The IIMB has a mandate and the needed facilities to play a major role in the design of new systems for Indian conditions and to train managers in recent development in computer assisted decision-making and information systems. These two institutes working jointly should help make this project successful and produce meaningful results of scientific benefit and of pertinent applications.