The potential roles of context-aware computing technology in optimization-based intelligent decision-making

Making effective decisions often depends on having the right information at the right time. Decision support systems were originally designed to help decision makers by automating some of the decision process. Today's decision support systems should take this a step further: making decisions proactively and intelligently by automatically detecting users' contextual data. Context-aware technology-based applications currently only provide limited personalization services that reference the user's context and preferences; these systems do not fully make use of sophisticated decision making capabilities. Hence, this paper describes how decision making and context-aware computing are jointly used to establish context-aware intelligent decision support systems. To incorporate these capabilities, we address a framework of context-aware intelligent intelligent decision support systems (CAIDSS), with the description of the subsystems within.