A relational theory of model management

The field of DSS, which began as an investigation into the need for tools to help managers to solve ill-structured problems [Carlson, 1977; Keen and Morton, 1978; Keen and Wagner, 1979; Alter, 1980], has grown to encompass a variety of approaches and concerns, including artificial intelligence, model management, information economics, and individual and group behavior [Blanning, 1983b; Bonczek, Holsapple and Whinston, 1981]. This is also reflected in the content of several recent collections of papers on DSS [Fick and Sprague, 1980; Ginzberg, Reitman, and Stohr, 1982; Bennett, 1983; House, 1983; Sol, 1983], and in attempts to develop a framework for DSS that includes stored data, data analysis procedures, and decision models [Blanning, 1982c, 1982d, 1979].

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