TY - JOUR
T1 - KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION AND MODEL SCRIPTING IN PLEXPLAN
T2 - AN AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENT FOR IS PLANNING.
AU - McIntyre, Scott C.
AU - Konsynski, Benn R.
AU - Nunamaker, Jay F.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - Progress has been limited in understanding the nature of IS planning and accomplishing its goals. Two problems which contribute fundamentally are the dynamism of IS and the difficulty of integrating multiple perspectives on IS planning. Automated environments which support the IS planning process must address these two issues, dynamism and integration. In this paper, three perspectives on the IS planning process are reviewed. Knowledge-based techniques using Semantic Inheritance Nets are described as useful for view integration and for providing a flexible, dynamic, automated model of the IS planning environment which is accessible to IS tools. The use of scripting in IS planning models is examined as a way to address the issue of IS dynamism. Implementation of these techniques is described in PLEXPLAN, a knowledge-based environment for IS planning.
AB - Progress has been limited in understanding the nature of IS planning and accomplishing its goals. Two problems which contribute fundamentally are the dynamism of IS and the difficulty of integrating multiple perspectives on IS planning. Automated environments which support the IS planning process must address these two issues, dynamism and integration. In this paper, three perspectives on the IS planning process are reviewed. Knowledge-based techniques using Semantic Inheritance Nets are described as useful for view integration and for providing a flexible, dynamic, automated model of the IS planning environment which is accessible to IS tools. The use of scripting in IS planning models is examined as a way to address the issue of IS dynamism. Implementation of these techniques is described in PLEXPLAN, a knowledge-based environment for IS planning.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0023018397
SN - 0073-1129
VL - 1 a
SP - 397
EP - 404
JO - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
JF - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
ER -