Integrating OR models for decision making by introducing qualitative knowledge of the problem contexts

While systems seek to be versatile by maintaining a repository of models, most of the systems focus on providing a framework for managing models, not on providing support for the problem-solving process. Without this support, users tend to be confined to the few familiar models and fail to take full advantage of what is offered by a system. Furthermore, the team-based collaboration entails that everyone produces some information and relies on information from various sources for decision making; finding the relevant information becomes a difficulty. To cope with these problems, the authors propose a system that will facilitate the problem-solving process by embedding in the system the qualitative knowledge of the problem context to intelligently guide the composition of models.