The Effects of Documents Lineage on Use of Explanation in Document-Driven DSS

In document-driven DSS, the decisions are both based on the inheritance among the documents and the acceptance of advices for users. Research in the field of DSS has shown that providing explanations may improve acceptance of decision makers. The most important part of explanations in document-driven DSS lies in tracing the contents and the classification of interrelated documents. But current document-driven DSS is lack of a mechanism to record the citation and cluster the related documents. This paper tries to find out the trace routes among documents to improve the explanations. First, a document lineage model is established to present the citation and delivery mechanism in documents. Second, the document DNA is used to build the routes of documents transferences. Third, the whole lineage in documents is integrated by routes. Finally, a system frame for explanations mechanism in document-driven DSS was described.