Selecting Analytic Approaches for Decision Situations. A Matching of Taxonomies.

Abstract

This report attempts to develop a conceptual framework within which the state-of-the-art of applied decision analysis can be condified. The framework consists of a three-way taxonomy: decision situations, analytic options, and performance measures. Within this framework, a tentative and illustrative set of practical guidelines is presented to help decision analysis users and practitioners identify appropriate analytic approaches for any given decision situation. An attempt is made to suggest a taxonomic framework for codifying the state-of-art- of decision analysis, a language for expressing matching generalizations which associate the appropriate analytic option to a particular situation. This language has three main components, each of which has an exhaustive numerical coding scheme.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA033349

Entities

People

  • Jacob W. Ulvila
  • Rex V. Brown

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Economic Analysis
  • Governments
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Linear Programming
  • Military Research
  • Operations Research
  • Probability Distributions
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Forces

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.