TY - JOUR
T1 - Construction of a Model Formulation Consultant
T2 - The AEROBA Experience
AU - Sen, Arun
AU - Vinze, Ajay
AU - Feng, Shue
AU - Liou, T.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Typically, most of the current decision support systems (DSS’s) do not possess a module to help users formulate mathematical programming models. This observation has led researchers to offer different approaches to the design of formulation consultants. Generally, these approaches emphasize the automation of formulation tasks with a predetermined (static) control or guidance strategy. A new approach to construct a formulation consultant that emphasizes dynamic formulation control, opportunistic control is offered. A system, AEROBA, has been developed using a blackboard architecture to provide support to the formulation process. Several of the issues raised regarding model formulation, opportunistic control, and blackboard systems are addressed using the AEROBA implementation. The contributions of this research are: 1) understanding the process of model formulation; 2) addressing the concerns of model formulation in attempting to automate the process; and 3) using the blackboard paradigm to deal with the unique characteristics of the model formulation process.
AB - Typically, most of the current decision support systems (DSS’s) do not possess a module to help users formulate mathematical programming models. This observation has led researchers to offer different approaches to the design of formulation consultants. Generally, these approaches emphasize the automation of formulation tasks with a predetermined (static) control or guidance strategy. A new approach to construct a formulation consultant that emphasizes dynamic formulation control, opportunistic control is offered. A system, AEROBA, has been developed using a blackboard architecture to provide support to the formulation process. Several of the issues raised regarding model formulation, opportunistic control, and blackboard systems are addressed using the AEROBA implementation. The contributions of this research are: 1) understanding the process of model formulation; 2) addressing the concerns of model formulation in attempting to automate the process; and 3) using the blackboard paradigm to deal with the unique characteristics of the model formulation process.
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U2 - 10.1109/21.179863
DO - 10.1109/21.179863
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449795028
SN - 0018-9472
VL - 22
SP - 1220
EP - 1232
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
IS - 5
ER -