Assessing and Ranking Multi-Attribute Decision Alternatives: An Experiment.

Abstract

This thesis documents the collection and analysis of experimental data used to compare and contrast three methods of evaluating attribute choices that have no natural measurement basis. Attribute choice evaluation is prerequisite to ranking and evaluating multi-attribute decision alternative sets. Data for the methods center on subjective inputs from subject matter experts. The particular experiment collected response data from 27 experts in the United States Navy LAMPS (Light Airborne Multipurpose System) helicopter community attached to the Naval Postgraduate School. The pilots compared three helicopter systems (attribute choices) in each of four system categories (attributes); weapons, navigation systems, communication systems, and sensors. The complete procedure would evaluate every feasible helicopter system suite (decision alternative set), each set composed of one attribute choice from every attribute, facilitating ordinal ranking of the sets. Thesis results present consistency analyses of the experts' responses within, and between, the three methods of determining attribute choice values.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA297645

Entities

People

  • David C. Tiller

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • California
  • Communication Systems
  • Consistency
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Helicopters
  • Magnetic Anomaly Detectors
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Naval Operations
  • Navigation
  • Navy
  • Undersea Warfare
  • United States

Readers

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