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

用于提高服务系统定位效率的决策支持系统，美国和印度货币奖

• 批准号: 8821831
• 负责人: Gerard Rushton
• 金额: $ 5.69万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-01-01 至 1994-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8821831&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Decision; Support; System; Improving; Locational

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.

描述：该项目支持爱荷华州爱荷华市爱荷华大学地理系的 Gerard Rushton 博士和印度班加罗尔印度管理学院 (IIMB) 的 Vinod Tewari 博士的一项联合研究，旨在开发和测试决策支持系统，以提高适合印度农村地区的服务系统的选址效率。 具体来说，团队将： 参考样本研究区域中选定的服务系统，识别决策过程并分析决策者的需求；开发具有资源分配优化模型的分析程序；开发基于微计算机系统形式的交互式分析软件；以交互模式评估替代模型；汇集学者、规划者和决策者来完善决策支持系统并协助其传播。 该项目应能提高卫生服务、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，该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，并制定比目前任何现有系统更合适的专家系统规则。 范围：爱荷华大学设有国际合作研究中心和地理系，两者都拥有优良的资源，包括具有相关国际经验的工作人员以及在该领域进行研究的学者。 IIMB 的职责和所需设施可在针对印度国情的新系统设计中发挥重要作用，并培训管理人员了解计算机辅助决策和信息系统的最新发展。 这两个研究所的共同努力应该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。