Oona, Max and the WYWWYWI Principle: generalized Hypertext and Model Management in a Symbolic Programming Environment

Progress in decision support systems comes in a variety of forms. These include increased understanding of the organizational consequences of machine-mediated decision making, improved knowledge regarding how to implement DSSs (decision support systems), advances in techniques for managing and maintaining DSSs, and improvements in DSS technology that result in enhanced functionality or reductions in the cost of building particular DSSs. The progress in DSS reported here falls under the latter category. The research motivation for this work may, briefly, be described as follows.