两个定性综合集成支持技术

Two supporting technologies for qualitative meta-synthesis

近年来随着复杂科学的兴起以及现实中各种棘手问题的大量涌现,自1990年钱学森等提出的从定性到定量综合集成方法论日益受到重视.信息技术的创新发展带来的强大助推力及现实世界的强劲需求使得综合集成研讨厅的研究有了显著的发展.不同于工程实践方面关注的系统集成及其技术平台等,本文关注于应用综合集成方法处理复杂问题的一些基本问题,如怎样支持"大胆假设"以此展开"小心求证".介绍两种定性综合集成支持技术CorMap和iView及其5种典型应用,它们对代表人们思考行为的文本数据通过一系列不同的计算而探索不同视角下群体思想结构的可视化表达,以便交互式分析,亦是形象思维的支持技术.讨论了与其他一些技术,如文本挖掘、本体等的关系.

With the popularity of complex sciences and more occurrence of wicked problems in reality, the meta-synthesis system approach （MSA） proposed by Professor Qian Xuesen and his colleagues gained more attention. Both the impetus from the innovative IT developments and the urgent requirements from the reality drive the research and demonstrations of HWMSE. Despite system integration and its platform highlighted in the engineering practice, this paper focuses on some fundamental problems of applying MSA to complex issues, such as how to support ＂confident hypothesizing＂ which then leads to rigorous validating. Two supporting technologies for qualitative recta-synthesis, CorMap and iView, are addressed together with 5 typical applications. Toward the thinking behavior records represented by the textual data, both technologies conduct a series of computing to achieve the exploratory structures of the emerging ideas under different perspectives, and help interactive analysis and imaginary thinking. Comments on text mining, ontology regarding to CorMap/iView are given.