A Metadesign Theory for Tailorable Decision Support

• Published in: Journal of the Association for Information Systems Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 570 - 603
• Main Authors: Miah, Shah Jahan, Gammack, John G., McKay, Judy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta Association for Information Systems 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Dairy industry; Decision making; Decision support systems; Decision theory; Design; Design theory; Designers; Forestry; Information systems; Knowledge; Knowledge based engineering; Principles; Science; Subject specialists; User generated content; Hawaii; United States > US
• ISSN: 1536-9323; 1536-9323
• DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00544

Despite years of decision support systems (DSS) research, DSS artifacts are frequently criticized for lacking practitioner relevance and for neglecting configurability and contextual dynamism. Tailoring in end-user contexts can produce relevant emergent DSS artifacts, but design theory for this is l...