Towards Combinatorial Analysis, Adaptation, and Planning of Human-Computer Systems

  • Authors:
  • Mark Sh. Levin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. marksh@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The paper addresses a modular system approach to the analysis, design, and improvement of human-computer systems (HCSs). The approach is based on ordinal expert information and optimization models. A modular description of HCSs (system components and their interconnection), some corresponding requirements to them, and improvement actions are described. The following stages have been examined: design of a basic system morphology, modification of the morphology, analysis, and planning.Our combinatorial approach (two-level hierarchical morphological design) consists of two problems: (i) multicriteria analysis of primitives (design alternatives), and (ii) combinatorial synthesis. The hierarchical combinatorial synthesis is based on a “design morphology” which corresponds to an initial hierarchical knowledge structure (design alternatives, their estimates, etc.). Ordinal scales for initial information are used.Two basic numerical examples illustrate the approach: (i) modular analysis, adaptation, and improvement of HCSs; (ii) series planning the user interfaces for knowledge engineering.