This paper is about describing and analysing modelling practices in automotive industry and electronics design. Based on ethnographic observations in modelling sessions in three case studies, we tried to describe the modelling scope in real work environments. This helped to identify problem areas or areas of change, articulation work in decision making activities during modelling, models as sha...

Risk-based decision-making in reducing security risks is based on practical approach, usually a combination of rational and cognitive theories. In riskmanagement analytic, cybernetic, cognitive paradigms can be applied. The Analytic Paradigm has the potential to clarify a decision, but cannot guarantee an improved decision-making. Under the Analytic Paradigm it is asserted, that someone or a gr...

The general objective of the project is to build a process-centred environment kernel, providing assistance and active guidance to its users. Thanks to an hybrid approach of process modelling, both task-oriented at a coarse grain level, and decision-oriented at a fine grain level, it can be customized to support a broad range of collective design activities. The concept of issue is central to t...

Integrated modelling and environmental decision support are increasingly important as society tackles some of the most complex challenges of our generation, with impacts on future generations. When integrated modelling is successful, the results can be transformational yet the core elements for generating that success are not always clear. There is an elusive element to finding the best mix of ...

Modelling has always been at the core of both organisational design and Information Systems (IS) development. Models enable decision-makers to filter out the irrelevant complexities of the real world, so that efforts can be directed towards the most important parts of the system under study. However, both business analysts and IS professionals may find it difficult to navigate through a maze of...

Economic evaluations are increasingly conducted alongside randomised controlled trials, providing researchers with individual patient data to estimate cost effectiveness.However, randomised trials do not always provide a sufficient basis for economic evaluations used to inform regulatory and reimbursement decisions. For example, a single trial might not compare all the available options, provid...

Decision making requirements and solutions are observed in four world class Manufacturing Enterprises MEs . Observations made focus on deployed methods of complexity handling that facilitate multi-purpose, distributed decision making. Also observed are examples of partially deficient “integrated decision making” which stem from lack of understanding about how ME structural relations enable and/...

Despite the exponential growth in the literature on modelling and simulation studies of impact and cost-effectiveness in different aspects of healthcare, there is no clear consensus on the appropriate role of modelling in the development of recommendations in clinical guidelines. This is compounded both by the lack of a standardised approach to assess the quality of modelling, and lack of clari...

Prologue Introduction Economics as the core discipline of Farm Management Modelling farm systems for decision making Risk and Farm Management decision Real case studies Environmental concerns Farm Management education

This extended research abstract describes an argumentation-based approach to modelling articulated decision making contexts. The approach encompasses a variety of argument and attack schemes aimed at representing basic knowledge and reasoning patterns for decision support.