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The Coast Guard's KSS Project

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  • Steven O. Kimbrough

    (Department of Decision Sciences/6366, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6366)

  • Clark W. Pritchett

    (United States Coast Guard Research and Development Center, Avery Point, Groton, Connecticut 06340)

  • Michael P. Bieber

    (Computer Science Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167-3808)

  • Hemant K. Bhargava

    (Naval Postgraduate School, Code 54BH, Monterey, California 93943-5000)

Abstract

Since June 1986, the University of Pennsylvania has been under contract with the Coast Guard to provide support for the Coast Guard's KSS (knowledge-based decision support systems) project. A principal output of the KSS project has been Max, a DSS shell or environment, originally designed to support modeling tasks during decision making for ship acquisition. Max is innovative in a number of ways: (1) it is a document-oriented DSS, (2) Max documents are generalized hypertext documents for which the buttons and linkages to associated information are set up dynamically at run time by the system, and (3) Max contains a model management system, called TEFA, which can represent and evaluate a broad range of models. In addition, TEFA is able to represent a rich body of information about its models and data, and this meta-information is available through the generalized hypertext facilities of system. Max has been delivered to the Coast Guard and is in use. Several important Coast Guard and Navy models have been implemented in Max at very low cost.

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  • Steven O. Kimbrough & Clark W. Pritchett & Michael P. Bieber & Hemant K. Bhargava, 1990. "The Coast Guard's KSS Project," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 20(6), pages 5-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:20:y:1990:i:6:p:5-16
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.20.6.5
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