The Extended Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis Model (EMADAM).

Abstract

This research is an on-going effort to produce an interactive, computer-based aid suitable for use in decision situations and long-term planning. The current research involves the development of extensions to the applicability of a decision aid embodied in the computer program MADAM: Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis Model. The theoretical underpinnings of MADAM involve portions of multi-attribute utility theory. This interactive program is designed to aid the decision-maker in all phases of decision analysis from problem formulation to sensitivity analysis. The program is a tool designed to be used by a decision-maker in order to facilitate making rational and consistent trade-offs and subdecisions throughout the entire decision-making process. The stages of the decision analysis covered by the program include formation of an objectives hierarchy, elicitation of an appropriate set of attributes, examining the relationship between the attributes, establishing criterion weights, evaluating candidate solutions, and performing several types of sensitivity analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA139510

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  • A. R. Dewispelare

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
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  • Decision Theory
  • Delphi Method
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  • Digital Computers
  • Engineering
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  • Mainframe Computers
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
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  • Time

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