Stuart S. Nagel

Decision-Aiding Software

Skills, Obstacles and Applications

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The aim of this book is to clarify what is involved in using decision-aiding software in evaluative decision-making at a non-technical level. Topics covered include the skills that software enhances, the obstacles that it helps overcome, and the applications to diverse fields.

Produktdetails

• Policy Studies Organization Series
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-11659-1
• 1st ed. 1991
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9781349116591
• ISBN-10: 1349116599
• Artikelnr.: 44459629

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 An overview of the decision-aiding software: a microcomputer program for decision-making. Part 2 Skills the software enhances: choosing among alternatives; allocating scarce resources; explaining and predicting behaviour; teaching. Part 3 Obstacles the software helps overcomes: multiple dimensions on multiple goals; multiple missing information; multiple and possibly conflicting constraints; the need for simplicity in spite of all that multiplicity. Part 4 Applications to diverse fields: public policy problems; law problems; all fields of knowledge. Part 5 Supplementary materials: the menu trade for the decision-aiding software; testimonials for the software.