Research on Decision-Aiding: How to be a DSS

Bowen, Ken

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“…These have been generally ignored by the mathematical 'heart' of MCDM and MCDA, and concern, for instance, the elaboration of a methodology oriented towards a multiactorial and multidimensional process conception of decision aiding (cf [8] [10] [22] [24] [32]), and the elaboration of a multistage and multicriteria framework for MCDA process validation, which might favourize a more conscious development of the analyst's activities and selection of appropriate tools to achieve valid operational results under different perspectives (internal and external) (cf [19] [26]). …”

Section: Complexity Issues and Methodological Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This implies that the MCDA process activities are not restricted to those considered by the cognitive paradigm, but also include organisational and political ('social') actions, which may be essential for the validity of the cognitive process and for its formal and informal (sometimes invisible) results. On the other hand, formal modelling may have important organisational and political functions, if applied as useful tool to support client's learning (cf [14]) and to help actors' communication, cooperation, compromising, negotiation and thus organisational change (cf [8]). This implies, in particular, the analyst's endowment of tools to be considered in a wider sense, from a cultural and operational point of view.…”

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Complexity Issues and New Trends in Multiple Criteria Decision Aid

Ostanello

1997

Multicriteria Analysis

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Abstract. This paper is an introduction to the present chapter and aims to outline a framework within which all the included papers find a common conceptual thread while some terminological differences exist These reflect the complexity that is inherent to any decision aiding process in a real organisational context, a complexity which does not tolerate, for various validity reasons, a mutilating simplification that is often imposed by classical mathematical approaches. A need of new tools which might favorize a more mature and integrated development of the analyst's activities, within cultural contexts other than those hypothesized by the classical assumptions of OR/DA, is also underlined. This permits one to recall some new trends of MCDA research which are, at the moment, found in literature. MCDA toolsThe studies on multiple criteria decisions in 'real' or organisational contexts have been stimulated over the last ten-year period, after a distinction between the situations of Decision Making (MCDM) [16] [23]), were rich and stimulating. These did not, however, relevantly influence MCDA/MCDM literature, which has been principally focused on 'the mythical decision moment' of an isolated individual, a decision-maker 'freed' from any context or process constraint, until very recently (cf [10]).New tools have been developed and new ways of using the existing methods have been proposed along with a 'new stream' of MCDA studies, with the aim of assisting both the analyst/modeller (A), i.e. the subject who has to 'take care' of the modelling activities (a decision-maker) during his OR/DA intervention, and the client/ decision-maker in a double process: a decisional process which J. Clímaco (ed.), Multicriteria Analysis

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Section: Complexity Issues and Methodological Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Need For An Integrated Approach Of Mcdamentioning

confidence: 99%