Semantic Support for Work in Organizations.

Abstract

Present day computer systems cannot implement much of the work carried out in organizations such as: planning, decision making, analysis, and dealing with unanticipated situations. Such organizational activities have traditionally been considered too unstructured to be suitable for automation by computer. We are working on the development of computer technology to overcome these limitations. Our goal is the development of a computer system which is capable of the following: describing the semantics of applications as well as the structure of the organization carrying out the work, aiding workers in carrying out the applications using these descriptions, and acquiring these capabilities in the course of the daily work through a process which is analogous to apprenticeship.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA130457

Entities

People

  • Carl Hewitt
  • Gerald Barber
  • Peter De Jong

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Formal Languages
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Models
  • Organizational Structure
  • Relational Databases
  • Semantics
  • Standards

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.