A designer´s associate for command and control software development

Supervisory control is a cooperative effort between operators, automated systems, and designers. For this reason, one can seek to address in part past and future supervisory control problems by explicitly supporting designers. This paper describes a computer-based decision support approach for design which is directed at facilitating recognition-primed decision making and at ensuring that designer decision-making is not bounded by personal experience, but at most by the experiences of the organization in which the designer works. The approach relies on an inter-linked base of knowledge which integrates information from multiple organizations, systems, and individuals