This paper analyses how different coordination modes and different multiobjective decision making approaches interfere with each other in hierarchical organizations. The investigation is based on an agent-based simulation. We apply a modified NK-model in which we map multiobjective decision making as adaptive walk on multiple performance landscapes, whereby each landscape represents one objecti...

Decision making is studied from a number of different theoretical approaches. Normative theories focus on how to make the best decisions by deriving algebraic representations of preference from idealized behavioral axioms. Descriptive theories adopt this algebraic representation, but incorporate known limitations of human behavior. Computational approaches start from a different set of assumpti...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the literature concerning nurses' roles and strategies in EOL decision making in acute care environments, synthesize the findings, and identify implications for future research. We conducted searches in CINAHL and PubMed, using a broad range of terms. The 44 articles retained for review had quantitative and qualitative designs and represented ten countr...

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Demand response (DR) can be very useful for an industrial facility, since it allows noticeable reductions in the electricity bill due to the significant value of energy demand. Although most industrial processes have stringent constraints in terms of hourly active power, DR only becomes attractive when performed with the contemporaneous use of battery energy storage systems (BESSs). When this o...

Program Master of Science in Business Administration Research questions what are the pros and cons of using intuition in the businesses from the strategic decision making approach, in a changing and complex business environment? Purposes To inform business people, especially managers and executives who are facing strategic decision making the benefits and risks of relying on intuition, therefor...

This paper discusses the definition of the state space and corresponding choice sets that figure in the theory of decision making under uncertainty. It elucidates an approach that overcomes some conceptual difficulties with the standard models and accommodates a procedure for expanding the state space in the wake of growing awareness.

Software engineers, using decision theory to make design choices, can improve their selections if they rely on outside expertise to reduce the uncertainty in their objectives. However, integrating specialized expertise presents another set of problems. This paper presents two challenges to using decision theory in selecting security technologies.

The present paper proposes a sustainable manufacturing strategy decision framework that integrates classical manufacturing strategy and sustainable manufacturing. Former approaches in these two fields were not inclusive; thus, an integrative decision framework is necessary. Along with this integration, the inclusion of major issues directly associated with manufacturing sustainability, such as ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the educational effectiveness on learning evidence based medicine of a handheld computer clinical decision support tool compared with a pocket card containing guidelines and a control. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING University of Hong Kong, 2001. PARTICIPANTS 169 fourth year medical students. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Factor and individual item scores from a...