An approach to the development of decision support systems with knowledge-driven automated service composition

Abstract

The development of a decision support system typically requires a significant effort from both domain modelling and technical perspectives. The paper proposes an approach for reducing the complexity of decision support system development leveraging automated service composition. The rationale behind the approach is that today many software systems (including decision support systems) are based on service-oriented architecture and to some extent the development of such systems can be represented as building composition of services satisfying the specified requirements. The problem of building such compositions can be successfully addressed by automated planning algorithms. Particularly, the paper presents the functional framework of decision support systems, requirements analysis for configurable service-oriented decision support systems and their main components, and a conceptual model of a configurable service-oriented decision support system.