THE MODERN ROLE OF CONTEXT IN DECISION-MAKING
Yuriy Chaplinskyy · Scientific Works of National University of Food Technologies · 2018
Decision-support system Decision-making Context Knowledge managementModern decision-making with the use of knowledgebased technologies is seen as a powerful competitive advantage at the enterprise, focused on permanent changes in business processes.The activities of both individuals and systems are increasingly depend on the use of knowledge as one of the most valuable resources.The complexity of implementing such decision-making is the need to synthesize different points of view on the problem, use of terms and concepts from various subject areas, description of own ideas to manage with a large amount of information relevant to the problem, and understanding of the problem decisions etc. Decision-making and integration of the components of decision-making are based on the representation of multilevel governance and decision-making through the context model.The presented approach is aimed at building a context model representing the problem(s) to be solved by the decision support system.Context describes factors which influence the problem and provides requirements to solutions to be generated for the decision maker.The context in the paper is defined as a collection of objects in which each object has a set of names and relations, and represents a construct consisting of concepts within the context areas and is described by the context ontology.The context ontology takes into account different context areas, such as: purpose/ result, factor, process/action, object, medium, facility, tools, presentation, location, and time.Objects, relationships, and attributes are used to represent contextual domains.Contextual concepts are interconnected through relationships, including intradomain, interdomain and intercontextual relationships.Possible contextual relationships between contextual domains that can be structural (hierarchical) and semantic (associative) are presented.