Dr. Marovac, TU Graz

Lecture
Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI)
                      Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
                       Tel.+43-1-53532810,5336112
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Dr.Nenad MAROVAC
Visiting Professor
Technical University of Graz


INTERACTIVE SOLVER SELECTION AND CONSTRUCTION
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Every day our world is becoming more complex, dynamic and competitive.
This forces us to make management and operational decisions faster and
tighter, i.e. decisions which will bring us competitive edge.  On the
other hand problems which we are concerned with are becoming larger
and more complex.

This indicates a need for decision support tools that will enable us
to make decisions based on fast appraisal of the situation and
development of appropriate models and solutions.  These tools must be
highly interactive, easy to interface to different imformation
repositories, i.e. external data bases, execution environments, and
should be applicable to situations in different application domains.

Furthermore, software systems we produce are becoming larger and more
complex, and the cost of their construction is increasing at an
alarming rate.  New methodologies introduced recently and the
application of software reuse in construction of software is becoming
"a silver bullet" answer to rein in the cost and time overruns of
software development.

In the talk we propose a methodology and a tool in the form of an
interactive platform based on HyperNet - a world-wide distributed
hypermedia system, as its infrastructure.  They are our answer to
interactive decision making and semi-automatic construction of
software problem solvers.

Zeit: Mittwoch, 4.Juni 1997, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort:  ÖFAI, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien 1.