The importance of making good decisions is well-known in the business world and the perception of decision making as rational choice is the most common view. The amount of information involved in many decision making situations has increased dramatically in recent years and support of some kind is often needed. Consequently, fields like Business Intelligence (BI) and Decision Support Systems (D...

This study aims at augmenting the profile distance method (PDM) with techniques that support the elicitation of a relative weight vector. Therefore, prominent methods from the field of preference elicitation and related research are investigated according to their task fitness. Preference elicitation is widely regarded as one integral part of decision support. It has found broad attention in mu...

Elicitation of people’s knowledge is a central methodological challenge for psychology, with important impacts in many technical disciplines and industrial settings. The need to convert an expert’s beliefs into a useable format is of particular importance when judgments and decisions are made under uncertainty. Simply asking a person for their best estimate or to estimate a range is subject to ...

Requirements engineering (RE) is often seen as an essential facet in software development. It is a vital process before each project starts. In the context of systems engineering, an understanding and application of systems theory and practice is also relevant to RE. The contexts in which RE takes place habitually involve human activities. Therefore, RE needs to be sensitive to how people perce...

Experts in requirements elicitation use a wide variety of diverse elicitation techniques to understand users’ needs. Less experienced elicitation practitioners frequently use the same technique repeatedly, often because it is the only one they know or they do not know when to use alternative techniques. The authors are constructing a tool that aids less experienced analysts in selecting the mos...

We explore risk preference elicitation when subjects choose directly from an exogenously specified set of lotteries. Our choice tasks differ incrementally, e.g., choosing between two lotteries to selecting a portfolio continuous bundled Arrow securities, and text spatial presentation. Each subject completes multiple instances five different tasks, responses for each task are summarized in param...

At the outset of an analysis, there is a need to interact with problem-owners understand their perspectives on issues. This understanding leads construction one or more models reflect views, values and uncertainties. Some are qualitative; others, quantitative. Quantitative populating numbers, either from data further judgements elicited problem-owners, stakeholders experts. The model(s) may the...