Model-based decision support and user modifiability

Signed directed graphs and reasoning for agents and multi-agent systems

“…and forms the basis for further agent integration. Although few management functions have been formalized and automated, advances in information retrieval, processing, display, computer-aided management (CAM) and decision technologies have certainly led to significant modelling applications that help people to perform management functions (Chu 1990, Klein 1994, Quinlan 1990, Watkins and Eliot 1993, Weinroth 1990, White 1990. Models in management science are designed to describe, understand and finally support processes and activities that are primarily intellectual.…”