Making sense of the abstraction hierarchy in the power plant domain
Making sense of the abstraction hierarchy in the power plant domain
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理解发电厂领域的抽象层次结构
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2003
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M. Lind
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本文讨论了 Rasmussen [(1986) 信息处理和人机交互，北荷兰] 提出的用于监督控制人机界面设计的抽象层次结构。抽象层次结构的目的是通过多个级别的手段-结束和部分-整体抽象来表示工作域。论文认为，抽象层次结构同时存在方法论和概念上的问题。通过发电厂领域的具体例子对一系列选定的问题进行了分析和说明。结论是手段-目的层次及其关系的语义定义模糊，因此应通过更精确的区分来改进。此外，应该放弃对固定数量的手段-目的抽象层次的承诺，而更多地关注模型构建过程中的层次识别问题。还指出，试图澄清抽象层次结构的语义必然会缩小其可以应用的工作领域范围。
The paper discusses the abstraction hierarchy proposed by Rasmussen [(1986) Information processing and human-machine interaction, North-Holland] for design of human-machine interfaces for supervisory control. The purpose of the abstraction hierarchy is to represent a work domain by multiple levels of means-end and part-whole abstractions. It is argued in the paper that the abstraction hierarchy suffers from both methodological and conceptual problems. A cluster of selected problems are analyzed and illustrated by concrete examples from the power plant domain. It is concluded that the semantics of the means-end levels and their relations are vaguely defined and therefore should be improved by making more precise distinctions. Furthermore, the commitment to a fixed number of levels of means-end abstractions should be abandoned and more attention given to the problem of level identification in the model-building process. It is also pointed out that attempts to clarify the semantics of the abstraction hierarchy will invariably reduce the range of work domains where it can be applied.