More priorities, more problems? Decision-making with multiple energy, development and climate objectives

Making Multiple Monitors More Manageable

Decision making with multiple objectives using GAI networks

This paper deals with preference representation on combinatorial domains and preference-based recommendation in the context of multicriteria or multiagent decision making. The alternatives of the decision problem are seen as elements of a product set of attributes and preferences over solutions are represented by generalized additive decomposable (GAI) utility functions modeling individual pref...

Decision-Making Should Be More Like Programming

Justify is an interactive “end-user development environment” for deliberation. Justify organizes discussions in a hierarchy of points, each expressing a single idea. Points have a rich ontology of types, such as pro or con, mathematical, or aesthetic arguments. “Programs” in this environment use inference rules to provide assessments that summarize groups of points. Interactive browsing modes s...

Towards More Flexible Automatic Decision Making

Decision networks and decision trees are typical frameworks that underly most of the systems that are able to make automatic decisions under uncertainty. Decision networks are also known as influence diagrams and apply probabilistic inference among chance variables in a similar way as Bayesian networks. In addition, decision networks contain decision nodes and value nodes with associated utilit...

Making USB a More Energy-Efficient Interconnect

The ’64 Mustang is a classic: a car that people still talk and reminisce about 44 years on. Do you mess with success and change a winning formula? No, but you do update a design to fix weaknesses in the original (better audio, air-conditioning, reliability, etc.) and to address new consumer desires as the market changes (efficient engines to address fuel economy, catalytic converters to address...