Future Directions Toward Intelligent Decision Support Systems: An Artificially Intelligent Statistician

There are three important considerations in DSS de-velopment. (1) Decision making Involves both pri-mary and secondary processes, where secondary processes concern selecting appropriate decision making tools, approaches, and information. (2) making decisions, humans are subject to numerous cognitive limitations. (3) In order for end users develop DSSs, sophisticated, problem-oriented DSS generators must replace technically demand-ing DSS tools. These three considerations can be effectively addressed by including expert system components in DSSs. An expert DSS for statistical analysis Is proposed and used as an illustration. Decision making scenarios are used to indicate the potential of such a system. In particular, it appears that an expert DSS can provide support for both pri-mary and secondary decision making and help ame-liorate human cognitive limitations. Keywords:Expert systems, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, cognitive biases ACM Categories: H.4.2, 1.2.