Complexity in decision making: Determining university library opening hours

Bibliomining for Library Decision-Making

Most people think of a library as the little brick building in the heart of their community or the big brick building in the center of a college campus. However, these notions greatly oversimplify the world of libraries. Most large commercial organizations have dedicated in-house library operations, as do schools; nongovernmental organizations; and local, state, and federal governments. With th...

Ethical Decision-Making in Library Administration

Exclusionary Decision Making in Tehran Metropolitan Region- Complexity, Self organization and Power of Action

Viewing urban areas as webs of complex, interwoven networks, this article aims to analyze the decision-making process and its outcomes in Tehran metropolitan region. To do so, first the theoretical basis of complexity in urban life and its implications for planning have been reviewed. Using the main notion of power of action i.e. agency, and through creating the network of actors and their rela...

Decision-support and Complexity in Decision Making ACADEMIC TRACK

Organisations increasingly have to deal with complex problems. Multidisciplinary teams are needed to cope with such problems. In such teams, different people have different perspectives, knowledge and approaches. For decision-making on complex problems, this knowledge has to be shared, and new knowledge has to be constructed, in order to develop solutions for the problem. Theory suggests that I...

On the Complexity of Decision Making in Possibilistic Decision Trees

When the information about uncertainty cannot be quantified in a simple, probabilistic way, the topic of possibilistic decision theory is often a natural one to consider. The development of possibilistic decision theory has lead to a series of possibilistic criteria, e.g pessimistic possibilistic qualitative utility, possibilistic likely dominance , binary possibilistic utility and possibilisti...