Engineering of A Decision Support System for Coal Mine Planning and Production Scheduling

This paper discusses on the engineering of decision support systems for underground coal mine planning and production scheduling based on the experiences from developing a practical computer-based management information system. Particularly presented is a methodology for engineering decision support systems for underground coal mine planning and production scheduling, including an integration of computer graphics, database management, mathematical modeling and knowledge, engineering techniques and a coupling of the life-cycle and prototyping software-engineering processes to support system quality assurance.