Integrating object-oriented analysis with action logic for model building

Decision models play an important role in decision-making, and supporting model-building is one of the most important functions of model management in decision support systems. As concepts at different abstract levels have to be used in the process of model-building, representing these concepts in a coherent way has been recognized as a key research topic. In this paper, a model-building framework is proposed which integrates object-oriented analysis with action logic as the representation tool. This model-building framework can provide representations for concepts at different abstract levels and can describe the process of abstracting decision models from decision situations or problems represented in lower abstract level concepts