Enhancing User Understanding in a Decision Support System: A Theoretical Basis and Framework

:The primary purpose of decision support systems (DSS) is to help the decision maker develop an understanding of the ill-structured, complex environment represented by the model. This paper concentrates on understanding the modeled environment through model analysis. Specifically, the purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for model analysis based on Perkins’s theory of understanding and its basic premise (knowledge as design) and basic components (purpose, models, and arguments). This framework encourages enhanced user understanding in a DSS via the synergistic combination and integration of: (1) cognitive science (theory of understanding), (2) artificial intelligence (machine learning, knowledge extraction, and expert systems), (3) model analysis (deductive and inductive), and (4) DSS (model management, instance management, and knowledge-base management).

• 저널Journal of Management Information Systems · 15(2) · 199–220
• 토픽Complex Systems and Decision Making · Management Science and Operations Research
• DOI10.1080/07421222.1998.11518214
• 저자David M. Steiger