A General Model for Providing Active Computer Support to Design, Planning, and Management

Abstract

r objective is to design computer systems 0 which provide active computer support to The network structure of schemas in memory: Schemas can be visualized as nodes in a network of concepts, and there exist many types of relations between these concepts, which can be visualized as links in the network.The network is hierarchical, in that higher-level schemas include one or more lower-level schemas, where "include" denotes relationships such as "means of achieving," "component of," "more detailed specification of," and others. There are many other types of relationships among schemas in memory, in addition to the inclusion relation. Model Element 5Activation processes: Thinking--"working on a problem"-occurs by the activation of one or more schemas, by bringing those schemas "into" working memory, and