A Model Interface for the Decision Aiding Information System.

摘要

Under the sponsorship of the Ofyice of Naval Research, the Decision Aiding Information System is being developed at the Wharton School to provide a vehicle to assist the tactical level decision maker in bringing together available data, models and programs and through and active role in user/system interactions improve the manager's decision making activities. In today's complex systems, models have the capacity to play an ever-expanding role in the decision enviornment, but a system was required that would provide the decision maker with information which will (a) lead the decision maker to the proper model for the situation, (b) automatically find and transfer the required data to the model, and (c) transfer results back to the decision maker in an easy to use form. This paper explains the development and implementation of a Model Interface Program to meet these requirements in order to provide a bridge to enable the manager to integrate mathematical models into his own decision processes. (Author)