Excerpt from A Case Study of the Use of a Decision Support System The approach taken in this paper attempts to strike a convenient compromise between providing support which is so general that it is of little direct help to the person with the problem, and support which is so specific that it can only be useful in solving (or operating on) one particular problem. Thus, the system described below possesses some (rather general) knowledge of the problem area which is being considered, but it relies on the particular user to tailor its effect to his own situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.