scholarly journals A SWOT Analysis of Planning Support Systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1699-1714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Vonk ◽  
Stan Geertman ◽  
Paul Schot
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Information Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Planning Support Systems ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Planning Support ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
Insight Into

Insight into the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of planning support systems (PSS) is fragmented between users and system developers. The lack of combined insights blocks development in the right direction and makes potential users hesitant to apply PSS in planning. This study presents SWOT of PSS from a combined user–developer perspective. We first express them in terms of combinations of planning task, PSS information function, and user, and subsequently use a literature survey, a series of interviews, and a web survey to gather views from developers, users, and PSS experts. The analysis shows that planners mainly use simple information storage and retrieval systems for exploration tasks, while the majority of PSS are technically much more advanced and aim to support complex tasks. The potential of these advanced PSS can only be realized if planners and system developers start to share knowledge and demands and identify opportunities in a cooperative PSS-development process. Without such a process, the advantages and opportunities of PSS will remain unexploited.

Information storage and retrieval systems with incomplete information I

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Michał Jaegermann
Keyword(s):  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Information Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Boolean Algebras ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Theory Of Information

In the paper is developed a theory of information storage and retrieval systems which arise in situations when a whole possessed information amounts to a fact that a given document has some feature from properly chosen set. Such systems are described as suitable maps from descriptor algebras into sets of subsets of sets of documents. Since descriptor algebras turn out to be pseudo-Boolean algebras, hence an “inner logic” of our systems is intuitionistic. In the paper is given a construction of systems and are considered theirs properties. We will show also (in Part II) a formalized theory of such systems.

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