ON THE LOGIC OF GENERALIZED HYPERTEXT

Hypertext is one of those neat ideas in computing that periodically bu rst upon the scene, quickly demonstrating their usefulness and gaining widespread acceptance. As interesting, useful and exciting as hyperte xt is, the concept has certain problems and limitations, many of which are widely recognized. In this paper we describe what we call basic h ypertext and we present a logic model for it. Basic hypertext should b e thought of as a rigorously-presented approximation of first-generati on hypertext concepts. Following our discussion of basic hypertext, we present our concept of generalized hypertext, which is aimed at overc oming certain of the limitations of basic hypertext and which we have implemented in a DSS shell called Max. We then present a logic model f or browsing in generalized hypertext. This paper is a revised and expa nded Version of [9].