On Decision Making

Reflections on Decision Making*

The annual meetings of the National Academy of Arbitrators, like similar meetings of other learned and professional societies, are usually given over to discussions of general principles. Occasionally, but not often, at such meetings a session will be devoted to an analysis in depth of a single case. Even in such instances, however, interest is more apt to center upon the principles which were ...

Constraints on Decision Making 2

Researchers interested in performance in complex and dynamic situations have focused on how individuals predict their opponent(s) potential courses of action (i.e., during assessment) and generate potential options about how to respond (i.e., during intervention). When generating predictive options, previous research supports the use of cognitive mechanisms that are consistent with Long Term Wo...

Focus on shared decision‐making

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

Stochastic Decision Making in Manufacturing Environments

Decision making plays an important role in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, statistics and many other fields. In each field, decision making consists of identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues that define the decision. In any field, the nature of the decisions is affected by environmental characteristics. In this paper, we are considered the production planning pro...