The KM-MCDM interface in decision design: tradeoffs-free conflict dissolution
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2008.017951 | Milan Zeleny | Concepts of decision design are introduced via Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), Knowledge Management (KM) and optimisation. Decision-making conflict is defined as the absence of a prominent tradeoffs-free alternative. Because trade... | 3 - 23 |
Making decisions in hierarchic and network systems
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2008.017951 | Thomas L. Saaty, Mariya Sodenkamp | This paper summarises a mathematical theory of the measurement of both tangible and intangible factors, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and its generalisation to dependence and feedback, the Analytic Network Process (ANP) and illustrat... | 24 - 79 |
The effects of control risk and litigation risk on decision aid reliance
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2008.017951 | Mohamed I. Gomaa, James E. Hunton, Jacob M. Rose | Decision aids hold the potential to improve audit quality; yet, immense legal and regulatory pressures on audit firms to improve audit quality could lead to a |check list| mentality where auditors subordinate their audit judgements for the ... | 80 - 106 |
A postmodern turn to estimating performance frontiers
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2008.017951 | James E. Storbeck | Extremal approaches in Management Science (MS) to estimating efficient production functions owe their conceptual modelling origins to earlier, theoretical work in agricultural and production economics. The primary metaphor in this paradigm ... | 107 - 124 |
Software Review: The Planners Lab™ modelling and visualisation system
DOI: 10.1504/IJADS.2008.017951 | James F. Courtney | The Planners Lab (PL) is a modelling and visualisation application written and distributed by GRW Studios, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska. It is designed primarily for financial planning applications, but may be used for other simulation modelling a... | 125 - 130 |
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