Metagraphs swMATH ID: 1368 Software Authors: Basu, Amit; Blanning, Robert W. Description: Metagraphs: A tool for modeling decision support systems Most decision support systems (DSS) contain stored data, data analysis procedures, and decision models. However, many DSS have grown to the point that the average end user is presented with a bewildering array of information resources that are difficult to manage in an effective manner. As a result users often gravitate to a few familiar models and are unaware of the data resources available to them and how these resources relate to the various models. For example, they may think that a model requires data that is unavailable, when in fact that data has recently been added to the data base or could be calculated from another model. Or they may believe that all of the data needed to execute a set of models is available and find out well into the analysis that it is not. Existing tools for DSS design do not provide an effective and comprehensive foundation for modeling all the components of a DSS, or for addressing all the important DSS analysis and design issues. In this paper we show how a new graph-theoretic structure, called a metagraph, can be used as a unifying basis for addressing many important questions in DSS development and use. Homepage: http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.40.12.1579 Keywords: model management; decision support systems; metagraph Related Software: LPFORM; AMPL; GAMS; Woflan; WSAT; LINDO; SERBA; Formigramator; PersistenceImages; AlexNet; ImageNet; mlr; CHomP; QuillenSuslin; Scikit; GAUSSIAN; Kenzo; REPSN; QUALITY; GCLC Cited in: 17 Documents Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year Metagraphs: A tool for modeling decision support systems. Zbl 0824.90084Basu, Amit; Blanning, Robert W. 1994 all top 5 Cited by 33 Authors 5 Basu, Amit J. 5 Blanning, Robert W. 1 Alahakoon, Damminda 1 Asghar, Sohail 1 Chari, Kaushal 1 Churilov, Leonid 1 Clempner, Julio B. 1 Dombrovskaia, Lioubov 1 Feragen, Aasa 1 Gayialis, Sotiris P. 1 Gelman, Irit Askira 1 Greenberg, Harvey Joel 1 Hofacker, Ingo 1 Hotz, Thomas 1 Hou, Jiahua 1 Hu, Guangrui 1 Huckemann, Stephan F. 1 Miller, Ezra 1 Nussbaum, Miguel 1 Ramesh, Balasubramaniam 1 Rodríguez, Patricio 1 Sen, Tarun K. 1 Shtub, Avraham 1 Sidorova, Natalia 1 Tan, Zhenghua 1 Tatsiopoulos, Ilias P. 1 ter Hofstede, Arthur H. M. 1 van der Aalst, Wil M. P. 1 van Hee, Kees Max 1 Verbeek, H. M. W. 1 Vetschera, Rudolf 1 Voorhoeve, Marc 1 Wynn, Moe Thandar all top 5 Cited in 11 Serials 3 Management Science 3 Annals of Operations Research 2 Computers & Operations Research 2 European Journal of Operational Research 1 Formal Aspects of Computing 1 INFORMS Journal on Computing 1 Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (English Edition) 1 International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 1 Oberwolfach Reports 1 International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 1 Integrated Series in Information Systems all top 5 Cited in 12 Fields 12 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 8 Computer science (68-XX) 2 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 1 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 1 Combinatorics (05-XX) 1 Algebraic geometry (14-XX) 1 Differential geometry (53-XX) 1 Algebraic topology (55-XX) 1 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 1 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) Citations by Year