一句话：针对决策支持软件设计缺乏系统方法的问题，探讨系统化的设计空间探索。
决策支持应用（如区域存在监测或入侵检测）通过监测收集异构数据并建立态势感知，进而需要决策和/或行动。这类软件由角色各异的互连组件构成，其通信与同步对功能与性能至关重要。然而，其设计常由短期功能需求驱动，并仅依赖设计者经验，这种非系统化方法容易出错且难以修复。论文围绕决策支持软件的设计空间探索展开，旨在系统化地处理此类复杂软件的设计决策。摘要未报告具体方法细节与评估结果。
Presence monitoring or intrusion detection in a location/area are examples of decision-support applications. Decision-support applications are applications where monitoring is used to collect (heterogeneous) data and create situational awareness, which further requires decisions and/or actions. As such, decision-support software consists of different interconnected components with very diverse roles, whose communication and synchronization are essential for the application functionality and performance. Despite this complexity, software design for decision-support is often driven by short-term functional requirements and only supported by designers’ previous experience. In the current non-systematic approach, mistakes can be easily made, and can be very difficult to repair.