ROLE OF CONTROL IN THE MODEL FORMULATION PROCESS Academic Article

abstract

• Control is being increasingly recognized as having a critical role in the automation of the model formulation process. This paper describes an approach to understanding this role of control by observing experts' behavior and studying their verbalizations during the process of formulating models. Control concerns were noted at two levels: strategic and tactical. At the strategic level, control behavior was found to be opportunistic, i.e., the modelers did not follow a prespecified approach. This paper focuses on the tactical level, where the emphasis was on scheduling the tasks used to construct the model (referred to as formulation tasks). The tactical controls were demonstrated by our AEROBA system implementation.

authors

• Sen, Arun

published proceedings

• INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH

author list (cited authors)

• SEN, A., VINZE, A., & LIOU, S.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• SEN, A||VINZE, A||LIOU, SFT

publication date

• January 1994

publisher

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)  Publisher

published in

• Information Systems Research  Journal

keywords

• Formulation Control
• Model Formulation
• Model Management

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1287/isre.5.3.219

start page

• 219

end page

• 248

volume

• 5

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1287%2Fisre.5.3.219