A data/knowledge paradigm for the modeling and design of operations support systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 275-291

  Vaishnavi, Vijay K ^a,b   Buchanan, Gary C ^c   Kuechler Jr , William L ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Knowledge bases; Modeling control abstractions; Object model; Operations support systems; Production system model; Semantic data model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

OPERATIONS SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031101566     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.591452     Document Type: Article

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