Selecting Analytic Approaches for Decision Situations (Revised Edition). Volume 2. Case Studies

Abstract

The three volumes of this report present a conceptual framework within which experienced decision analysts can derive generalizations that match analytic techniques to decision situations and communicate those generalizations to decision makers and inexperienced analysts. This volume contains 5 case applications involving: (1) The problem of what foreign policy the U.S. should adopt in order to obtain more oil from a particular mideastern country; (2) A decision faced by the president of an electrical equipment company of whether to purchase the defense market rights to a flight safety patent; () A project undertaken by the Naval Electronics Systems Command to apply the 'Design-to- Cost' concept to an evaluation of proposed electronic warfare systems; (4) A research and development project aimed at developing tactical decision aids for Navy task force commanders; and (5) A study aimed at predicting NATO's response to actions taken by the Warsaw Pact countries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA047880

Entities

People

  • Jacob W. Ulvila
  • Rex V. Brown

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Ship Missiles
  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programs
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Federal Budgets
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Military Aircraft
  • Probability Distributions
  • Tactical Decision Aids
  • Task Forces
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics