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4th of July, DSS research and Google

My jet lag is almost corrected. On Friday morning, July 4th, I listened to Tung Bui (U Hawaii) on the question "Is DSS research running out of steam or ready to perk?". Tung's web page is http://itm.shidler.hawaii.edu/ITMBui.html .

What was Tung's answer? Maybe ready to perk ...Tung is most excited about research possibilities related to using virtual environments for advanced modeling. He attended my talk on training managers to use Second Life to support distributed decision making. Thanks for the comments Tung.

My sense is that a big infusion of research money on virtual worlds will stimulate tremendous research related to advanced decision support systems. Let's see what the typical funding agencies and corporations do with targeting funds.

So overall a good conference, thanks to Conference Chair Pascale Zaraté and the program and organizing committees.

Also, on the virtual world front. Google has a new virtual world in beta testing, check http://www.lively.com . I activated an account and created an avatar and started creating my first meeting room. The approach is different than Second Life, and in many ways easier for new users because it is so limited right now, eg., no building tools for regular users, few choices for avatars. We shall see what happens. The client runs in Internet Explorer so that is a plus compared to Second Life. My biggest complaint is the slow performance. It took almost 4 minutes for the Superhero HQ room to load for me. Navigating is also a problem. For some reason my avatar looked like a girl so I changed to John Doe.

Are virtual worlds the future of decision support?

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