Decision support system for policy making during a financial crisis

This paper introduces an application of the data mining tool, MUSASHI (Mining Utilities and System Architecture for Scalable processing of Historical data), for scientific policy making. Recent advances in information systems have allowed researchers to gather enormous amounts of data on opinions about government policy. However, these gathered data have been individually stored, and have never been integrated because of a lack of techniques to analyze the data in an integrated way. In this paper we propose a cloud application for policymaking during a financial crisis. For this purpose, we have developed an ASP- platform- leveraging distributed- computing technology represented by Cloud computing.