Development of a Support System for Structural Modeling in System Planning
Shuji Soga, Takenao Ohkawa, Norihisa Komoda · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 1994
To obtain appropriate solutions in business information systems planning, it is necessary to perform the problem analysis elaborately. A structural model which represents the causal relations of problems using a directed graph is one of the effective techniques for the problem analysis. However, it is very difficult for novice system planners to make a structural model which has satisfying quality, since advanced skills, such as acquiring and selecting items, relating the items and so forth, are needed for structural modeling.In this paper, we propose the support method of structural modeling by providing useful information from knowledge base for user. In this method, to extract serviceable knowledge from cases of structural model, nodes of structural model are divided into four parts. From the knowledge base which is constructed by this dividing techniques, effective information for getting idea of nodes is retrieved and provided timely for user.We have developed a support system for structural modeling based on the method mentioned above. Using this system in structural modeling, user can hit on a high quality idea of nodes efficiently and ability which is required in structural modeling can be reduced.