12160. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS. This paper presents an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) applications to various types of computer systems designed to assist decision makers in organizations – applications called decision support systems (DSS). Defines AI, DSS and expert systems (ES); describes the architecture of a DSS; defines the components of an expert system; examines the role and function of artificial intelligence in DSS; describes the evolution of group-based decision support (groupware); and considers trends in DSS and expert systems. Keywords: management decisions computer programs models. 14 pages, 44 footnotes, 10 bibliographic sources.