Web System for Supporting Project Management
This paper provides an alternative approach for project management through a web-based decision support system. This contribution integrates XML-based web services and decision support tools through a proposed platform, which is being developed for suppor
- PDF / 421,738 Bytes
- 12 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 107 Downloads / 358 Views
Web System for Supporting Project Management Ca´tia Filipa Veiga Alves, Andre´ Filipe Nogueira da Silva, and Maria Leonilde R. Varela
Abstract This paper provides an alternative approach for project management through a web-based decision support system. This contribution integrates XMLbased web services and decision support tools through a proposed platform, which is being developed for supporting large scale projects management, in order to enable to more easily work on projects, integrating many and complex tasks to be planned and controlled. Keyword Web-based • Decision Support System • XML Web Service • Project Management • Gantt Chart
19.1
Introduction
Project management is necessary to ensure that the projects are completed with success in the time and budget establish initially. In order to enable a better decision making the project managers usually need to use several distinct software tools, which sometimes are very expensive and sometimes lack the possibility or being easily integrated with other applications. In this paper we propose and described a web system for supporting project management (WSSPM). In order to enable a clear exposition of the proposed system, this paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 19.2 we include a brief contextualization about decision support systems. Section 19.3 summarizes a literature review about decision support systems for project management. Section 19.4 briefly describes the
C.F.V. Alves • A.F.N. da Silva • M.L.R. Varela (*) Department of Production and Systems, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Azure´m Campus, 4800-058 Guimara˜es, Portugal e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] A. Madureira et al. (eds.), Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and 203 Applications, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 61, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4722-7_19, # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
204
C.F.V. Alves et al.
proposed WSSPM architecture and its main functionalities and also includes an illustration about its potential use, for a project’s management processes support. Finally, on Sect. 19.5, a conclusion is presented.
19.2
Decision Support Systems
Since the early development of Decision Support Systems (DSS), in the 1970s, the evolution of these kind of systems have not been homogeneous, which made possible the emergence of distinct sub-fields, and according to Arnott, seven can be distinguished: Personal Decision Support Systems (PDSS), Group Support Systems (GSS), Negotiation Support Systems (NSS), Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), Knowledge Management-Based DSS (KMDSS), Data Warehousing (DW), Enterprise Reporting and Analysis Systems [1]. These fields can be associated with the orientation of the DSS and its purpose. While promoting a relationship with the user, Haettenschwiler [2] distinguished three different DSS categories: passive, active, and cooperative DSS. Another taxonomy can be found in the literature by Daniel Power, [3, 4] which
Data Loading...
