An Experiment in Schedule Making

An Experiment in SLA Decision-Making

Decision-making with regard to availability service level agreements (SLAs) is investigated. An experimental economics approach was used to elicit the preferences for different SLA alternatives from the subjects (N = 16), all professionally working with IT management. A previously published scenario on downtime costs in the retail business was used in the experimental setup. Subjects made 18 pa...

An Experiment on Case—Based Decision Making∗

We experimentally investigate the disposition of decision makers to use case—based reasoning as suggested by Case—Based Decision Theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler, 1995). Our subjects face a monopoly decision problem about which they have very limited information. Information is presented in a manner which makes similarity judgements according to the feature matching model of Tversky (1977) plausib...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Group Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment with Student Couples

In an experiment, we study risk-taking of cohabitating student couples, finding that couples’ decisions are closer to risk-neutrality than single partners’ decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with randomly assigned groups, corroborating external validity of earlier results. JEL Classification: C91; C92.

Incorporating AI into Military Decision Making: An Experiment

prototype technologies to produce a necessarily crude but sufficiently usable suite of decision aids. We placed the resulting ICCES in the hands of several Army officers in controlled experiments. The results alleviated concerns about the tool’s potential negative impacts, showed potential for dramatic time savings, and confirmed the technologies’ maturity and suitability for near-future deploy...