| AESOP: A GENERAL PURPOSE APPROACH TO REAL-TIME, DIRECT ACCESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS, (1998) | |||||||||
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| AESOP, a laboratory-based prototype of a general purpose, on-line, visually-oriented information system, is used to investigate ways of handling many different types and levels of command and management problems spanning organizational levels from the executive suite down through the staff and operations analysts to the actual system designers and programmers. In particular, it deals with those organizational activities that require highly flexible, direct-access capabilities. The system is configured for easy use by the inexperienced as well as by the sophisticated, and utilizes a variety of user station devices to facilitate such flexibility, including a cathode-ray-tube display, a lightgun, a typewriter, and associated push-buttons. At each station, it is capable of generating, editing, and formatting information on-line, as well as building, executing, and debugging on-line the analytic and mathematical procedures and algorithms of both the users and the system itself, depending upon the organizational area or level of the user. Although the basic prototype system was developed for use in military command and management planning and information systems, its philosophy and concepts are applicable to industrial and academic organizations. (Author) | |||||||||
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