An Automated Aid for Personnel Retention.

Abstract

This final report describes the logic underlying decision aiding systems and the construction of such a system for reenlistment decisions, including the information base for the aid and how it was obtained. The reenlistment decision aid is an elaboration upon, and the culmination of, our previous research using concepts from decision theory, in this case Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT). In all of this work the goal was to design aids that help Decision Makers think through a decision more thoroughly than they otherwise might in order to help them reach a more reasoned decision than they otherwise might. The purpose of MAUT-based aids is to structure the decision problem by decomposing it into classes of comparable consequences; the number of classes and the number of consequences in each class is kept manageable, and the only required evaluations are those that can be done easily.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168822

Entities

People

  • Jay J. Christensen-szalanski
  • Lee R. Beach

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Decision Theory
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Fuselages
  • Helicopters
  • Lifting Surfaces
  • Linear Systems
  • Military Research
  • Personnel Retention
  • Physical Properties
  • Productivity
  • Reenlistment
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Students
  • Transitions
  • Vibration

Readers

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