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The authors propose a tool for systems analysis that incorporates hypertext, simulation and expert system techniques. The tool, Hyper Analysis Toolkit (HAT), provides a hypertext linkage of graphical models, such as DFDs (data flow diagrams) and ERDs (entity relation diagrams) with system description narratives and other documents created during the early stages of systems analysis. Hyperlinks placed...
Competitive benchmarking is a useful and powerful tool in strategic planning. It allows a management team to compare the critical success factors of their company against those of other companies operating in the same markets or industry. Through this comparison, the management team is able to define target levels for critical success factors, and to evaluate the company's strategic objectives in...
Recent developments in knowledge-based systems technology offer an excellent and effective approach to building management support systems for strategic management. We have developed a hyperknowledge support system for strategic management in the forest industry, and have tried it out in several strategic business units in a major corporation. The core of the system is an object-oriented expert system,...
The paper discusses how hypertext can be used to provide explanations in knowledge-based systems (KBS), from both conceptual and implementation perspectives. To this end, it proposes a generic approach to providing hypertext-based explanations, which is based on the functional match between hypertext and explanations in MPS. A simulated KBS for financial analysis (Hyper-FINALYZER) is also described...
Empirical hypermedia research has concentrated on usability rather than utility, and the research on utility has focused on information access as opposed to problem solving and decision making in organizations. The study based on problem reduction theory, uses a hypermedia prototype system to support decision processes for solving a financial analysis problem. An exploratory laboratory experiment...
We describe a step-by-step methodology for the design and construction of hypermedia applications and illustrate our approach using a small application. The Relationship Management Design (RMD) methodology begins with a data model of the application domain and proceeds through the design of the hypertext network, user interface and run-time dynamics finally concluding with the construction and testing...
The goal of our research has been to simplify the development of hypermedia information systems. Classical object-oriented methods are good at capturing the semantics of multimedia type hierarchies using inheritance and encapsulation. However, they are not good at describing the object interactions prevalent in hypermedia applications. Our approach has been to extend the model of an existing object-oriented...
Because of the rapid pace of advances in the field of hypertext, data interchange systems are becoming important for the longevity of information systems based on hypertext or including hypertext features. Reference models, identifying those traits that are common to all systems of a certain kind allow us to create an intermediate data format useful for data interchange. The Dexter Hypertext Reference...
Information systems are often implemented as closed, monolithic applications that isolate information and functionality from other applications in a computing environment. Open hypermedia architectures, on the other hand, tend to promote information and tool integration. We examine hypermedia and information system integration from a technical perspective, and argue the case for using open system...
This work employs logic modeling as a common language to integrate two independent information domains/spl minus/document management and hypertext. The concept of hypertext concerns information management and access. Hypertext can also be considered a knowledge representation that models the structure of the information system it serves. A hypertext engine would give the user flexible access to the...
Hypertext navigation alone is insufficient for efficient Information Retrieval (IR). Previous attempts to combine IR techniques with hypertext have been confined to the pre-authored structure of a document. In this paper we extend computer-science methods to synthesize a tailor-made hypertext document in response to each user's query. The synthesis technique can also be used to automatically create...
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