Decision-Aiding Software: Skills, Obstacles and Applications

✍ Scribed by Stuart S. Nagel (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Policy Studies Organization Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to clarify what is involved in using decision-aiding software in evaluative decision-making at a non-technical level. Topics covered include the skills that software enhances, the obstacles that it helps overcome, and the applications to diverse fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
A Microcomputer Program for Decision-making....Pages 3-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Choosing Among Alternatives....Pages 23-36
Allocating Scarce Resources....Pages 37-49
Explaining and Predicting Behavior....Pages 50-70
Teaching With Microcomputers....Pages 71-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Multiple Dimensions on Multiple Goals....Pages 85-100
Multiple Missing Information....Pages 101-111
Multiple and Possibly Conflicting Constraints....Pages 112-127
The Need for Simplicity in Spite of All That Multiplicity....Pages 128-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Public Policy Problems....Pages 145-171
Law Problems....Pages 172-210
All Fields of Knowledge....Pages 211-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Menu-tree for the Decision-aiding Software....Pages 233-239
Testimonials for the Software....Pages 240-248
Bibliographies for the Software....Pages 249-259
A Tutorial Introduction to the P/G% Software....Pages 260-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-300

✦ Subjects

Computer Applications