Exploiting hypertext valuation links for business decision making: a portfolio management illustration

Author

Balasubramanian, P. ; Isakowitz, Tomis ; Kauffman, Robert ; Madhavan, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Stern Sch. of Bus., New York, NY, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

9-11 Oct 1991

Firstpage

312

Lastpage

318

Abstract

This paper discusses the application of hypertext valuation links to decision support for business problems. Valuation links enable one to relate hypertext link traversal to computation in a way that affects the contents of a hypertext node while retaining the `browsing metaphor´ of hypertext. This helps to support quantitative or qualitative reasoning about business problems when described in terms of hypertext nodes that are computational in nature. It illustrates these ideas in the domain of securities analysis and portfolio management, where a `buy side´ portfolio manager may need to clarify his understanding of the basis of a `sell side´ securities analyst´s recommendations about securities that are candidates for inclusion in a portfolio

Keywords

financial data processing; hypermedia; investment; management; browsing; business decision making; hypertext valuation links; portfolio management; qualitative reasoning; quantitative reasoning; securities analysis; Application software; Cost accounting; Decision making; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Information security; Management information systems; Portfolios; Problem-solving; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Artificial Intelligence Applications on Wall Street, 1991. Proceedings., First International Conference on

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2240-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIAWS.1991.236584

Filename

236584