PROBLEM SOLVING FRAMEWORK WITHIN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Yan H. Ng

2011

Abstract

In the study of problems solving, cognitive psychologists had generalized it as a process of applying skills to overcome obstacles and constraints, so as to move from a given state to the desired goal state. In here, we look at where a line could be drawn to divide the process of problem solving into two sub-processes; a one-off, but cognitive demanding task for human to define the problem space, in terms of representation, and a routine search process, that could be undertaken by a machine, to search and select a solution within a defined solution space, so that to oversee its execution from start to finish to realize the goal.

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in Harvard Style

H. Ng Y. (2011). PROBLEM SOLVING FRAMEWORK WITHIN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-54-6, pages 140-146. DOI: 10.5220/0003434301400146


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis11,
author={Yan H. Ng},
title={PROBLEM SOLVING FRAMEWORK WITHIN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={140-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003434301400146},
isbn={978-989-8425-54-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - PROBLEM SOLVING FRAMEWORK WITHIN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8425-54-6
AU - H. Ng Y.
PY - 2011
SP - 140
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0003434301400146