Problem-oriented systems as a resource of paperless decision-making technology

It is difficult in the framework of one article to generalize and systematize the rich factual material of investigations of traditional sore points in programming: the development of convenient languages and efficient systems, increasing reliability and quality of programs and their complexes, automating the process of generating PO systems, implementing teleacess resources, and unification and standardization. Nevertheless, in light of the questions examined in the past twenty years [32, 33] the basic aim of system programming must be perceived in attaining paperless decision-making technology. The basic concepts of this technology were formulated in the last monograph of Glushkov [1], in which he indicates that further increase of the potential of administrative mechanics and scientific investigations “ ... may not be attained in the framework of traditional (paper-based) technology owing to the fact that people will be supplied with these or those instruments that act as deposits, i.e., when all information flows are enclosed in a finite loop through people. Reserves in the growth of labor productivity with such technology are quickly exhausted owing to bottlenecks that restrict the throughput of the human element.”