In a message dated 95-12-29 03:10:24 EST, you write:
>Another approach to expanding the dimensions of 2-D models is the use of
>hypertext tools. We have been exploring uses of a software tool
>(QuestMaps) that draws 2-D "maps" of conversations using the IBIS
>rhetorical model, but allows you to link nodes on the maps to any other
>map. This creates a multidimensional set of views into a group's
>conversations over time, and is an extremely flexible way of showing, and
>understanding, the many facets of a complex issue and the way the group is
>coming to grips with it.
This being done, do we not, then have knowledge encoded in "near" rule
form and couldn't this knowledge translated to executable rules for
permanent use in future decisions (intelligent decision support)?
Capturing legacy knowledge in executable form is a new (and I suspect
increasingly essential) way of being a learning organization. Right now
an organization rents knowledge via wages. Core knowledge we should own.
-- Hal Popplewell Chairman; IntelliSys Companies GaltJohn22@aol.com