Recent advances in information technology and systems in the Internet-era : Introduction to the WITS'05 special issue for decision support systems

The December 2007 issue of Decision Support System includes articles that were presented in the Fifteenth Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS'05), held in December 10-11, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada. Han, Purao, and Storey presented 'Generating Large-scale Repositories of Reusable Artifacts for Conceptual Design of Information Systems,' a study reuse at the conceptual design level. 'Internet Based Telemedicine: An Empirical Investigation of Objective and Subjective Video Quality', by Tulu and Chatterjee, investigate the video quality due to network impairments such as packet delay and how these impairments affect decision making of medical personnel. 'A Stack-based Prospective Spatio-temporal Data Analysis Approach', show the risky areas of irregular shapes than the existing methods. 'Designing Online Selling Mechanisms: Transparency Levels and Prices, by Granados, Gupta, and Kauffman is a decision support approach for air travel firms to set transparency levels and process across online selling mechanisms.