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Supporting Organizational Problem Solving with a Workstation

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dc.creator Barber, Gerald
dc.date 2004-10-01T20:18:47Z
dc.date 2004-10-01T20:18:47Z
dc.date 1982-07-01
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-09T02:40:45Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-09T02:40:45Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-09
dc.identifier AIM-681
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5666
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721
dc.description This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding language called Omega is used to embed knowledge of the organization into an office worker's workstation in order to support the office worker in his or her problem solving. A particular approach to reasoning about change and contradiction is discussed. This approach uses Omega's viewpoint mechanism. Omega's viewpoint mechanism is a general contradiction handling facility. Unlike other Knowledge Representation systems, when a contradiction is reached the reasons for the contradiction can be analyzed by the deduction mechanism without having to resort to a backtracking mechanism. The Viewpoint mechanism is the heart of the Problem Solving Support Paradigm. This paradigm supplements the classical AI view of problem solving. Office workers are supported using the Problem Solving Support Paradigm. An example is presented where Omega's facilities are used to support an office worker's problem solving activities. The example illustrates the use of viewpoints and of Omega's capabilities to reason about it's own reasoning process.
dc.format 30 p.
dc.format 10140634 bytes
dc.format 1549445 bytes
dc.format application/postscript
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.relation AIM-681
dc.subject problem solving
dc.subject office information systems
dc.subject workstations
dc.subject sOMEGA
dc.subject viewpoints
dc.subject office semantics
dc.subject change and contradiction
dc.subject soffice automation
dc.title Supporting Organizational Problem Solving with a Workstation


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