One of the central goals of knowledge discovery in databases is to produce knowledge useful for decision making. However, the form in which knowledge can be easily discovered is often different from the form in which its is most readily used for decision making. This paper describes a methodology in which knowledge is discovered in declarative form (decision rules). When it is needed for decisi...

In this paper I analyze the e¤ect of the transparency of the decision making process in committees on the decisions that are eventually taken. I focus on committees whose members are motivated by career concerns, so that each member tries to enhance his own reputation. When the decision making process is secretive, the individual votes of the committee members are not exposed to the public but ...

A panel of experts is a group of people selected and assembled for some service such as investigation, arbitration, generation of guidelines etc. We consider a panel of experts which has to form a collective view in favor or against a certain issue. The panel is required to provide adequate reasons to support their view, as well as make explicit what the connection rule between the reasons and ...

This article proposes a principled approach to multicriteria decision making (MCDM) where the worth of decisions along attributes is not supposed to be quantified, as in multiattribute utility theory, or even measured on a unique scale. This approach actually generalizes additive concordance rules a la Electre and is rigorously justified in an axiomatic way by representation theorems. We indeed...

In the American criminal justice system, prosecuting attorneys arguably enjoy broader discretion than any other system actor. Research, however, is beginning to show that prosecutorial discretion is not nearly as unconstrained as initially thought. Relying on in-depth interviews and surveys of prosecutors in two large urban/suburban county prosecutors’ offices, this article examines prosecutors...

Cognitive radios are proposed to be the technology that will alleviate the problem of spectrum scarcity by using the underutilized radio frequency on non-interfering basis. So the cognitive radio user must be able detect the available spectrum opportunity reliably and efficiently. Spectrum sensing is an important functionality for cognitive users to look for spectrum holes before taking transmi...

The business rules that underlie an enterprise emerge as a new category of system requirements that represent decisions about how to run the business, and which are characterized by their business-orientation and their propensity for change. In this paper, we introduce a decision making methodology which addresses several aspects of the business rules lifecycle: acquisition, deployment and evol...

the sensitivity analysis for multi-attribute decision making (madm) problems is important for two reasons: first, the decision matrix as the source of the results of a decision problem is inaccurate because it sorts the alternatives in each criterion inaccurately. second, the decision maker may change his opinions in a time period because of changes in the importance of the criteria and in the ...

According to the demand for condition-based maintenance online decision making among a mission oriented fleet, an intelligent maintenance decision making method based on Multi-agent and heuristic rules is proposed. The process of condition-based maintenance within an aircraft fleet (each containing one or more Line Replaceable Modules) based on multiple maintenance thresholds is analyzed. Then ...