Group decision making plays an important role in today’s organisations. The impact of decision making is so high and complex, that rarely the decision making process is made individually. In Group Decision Argumentation, there is a set of participants, with different profiles and expertise levels, that exchange ideas or engage in a process of argumentation and counter-argumentation, negotiate, ...

Decision support systems (DSS) play an important role in supporting scheduling tasks in industrial settings. In this paper, a special facet of DSS, respectively their development, implementation and usage in relation to user participation, is examined. The outlined research model proposes that different forms of user participation lead to different levels of model complexity. This complexity in...

In many applications it is necessary to use a simple and therefore highly misspecified econometric model as the basis for decision-making. We propose an approach to developing a possibly misspecified econometric model that will be used as the beliefs of an expected utility maximiser. An objective function that measures the value of predictive distributions in decision-making is introduced and u...

impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality rates in the Dutch population. Environ Health Perspect 2001;109:463–70. 4 The Eurowinter Group. Cold exposure and winter mortality from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, and all causes in warm and cold regions of Europe. Lancet 1997;349:1341–6. 5 Katsouyanni K, Touloumi G, Spix C, et al. Shortterm effects of ...

Considering the variety of attitudes, objectives and behaviors characterizing forest owners is crucial for accurately assessing the impact of policy and market drivers on forest resources. A serious shortcoming of existing pan-European Decision Support Systems (DSS) is that they do not account for such heterogeneity, consequently disregarding the effects that this might have on timber supply an...

Recent studies have shown that the involvement of semantic information in visual lexical decision depends on the nature of nonword foils with semantic effects increased as nonwords become more word-like (Evans, Lambon Ralph &Woollams, 2012). Given that most models of lexical decision focus on orthographic information (Coltheart, Rastle, Perry, Langdon & Ziegler, 2001; Grainger & Jacobs, 1996; S...

The problem of modelling lexical decision in connectionist models is discussed. It is shown how lexical decision can be performed by a simple neural network with no explicit lexicon and no recurrent connections. We also see how simulated reaction times can be extracted from such systems that are in broad agreement with various experimental data concerning semantic and associative priming.

several di erent messages into one When using the latter two methods one has to be careful to preserve the se mantics of the original model CGL Using these techniques we have been able to verify systems with up to di erent messages Alternative Approaches In GL BG it is suggested to extend the BDD data structure for the representation of message bu ers The new data structures are called QBDDs an...

Often in cooperative situations, many aspects of the decision-making environment are uncertain. We investigate how cooperation is shaped by the way information about risk is presented (from description or from experience) and by differences in risky environments. Drawing on research from risky choice, we compare choices in stochastic social dilemmas to those in lotteries with equivalent levels ...