Value(s)-driven decision-making

Environmental Decision Making: Analysis and Values

In order to understand the reasons for seeking a better means of incorporating "intangible" or "fragile" values into systems analysis, it is necessary to understand the functions analysis fulfills (or might fulfill) in environmental decisions-decisions that are fundamentally political in the sense that they ultimately involve competing or conflicting values, and therefore cannot be resolved by ...

Values in Nordic Newspaper Editor Decision-making

The study shows that Nordic daily newspapers—like their American peers—will have to change their content to conform more to the tastes of readers or—at the very least—find a more reader-friendly way to present the news. The authors compare national surveys of Nordic and U.S. editors charged with the practical aspects of choosing, justifying, editing, and publishing the news. In a search for val...

Moral Values in Norm Decision Making

Resum Most often, both agents and human societies use norms to coordinate their on-going activities. Nevertheless, choosing the ?right? set of norms to regulate these societies constitutes an open problem. Firstly, intrinsic norm relationships may lead to inconsistencies in the chosen set of norms. Secondly, and more importantly, there is an increasing demand of including ethical considerations...

Visually-Driven Decision Making Using Handheld Devices

This paper discusses group decision making from a visual-interactive perspective. The novelty of our approach is that its major focus is on developing a collection of visualinteractive elements for group decision-making. Our research departs from a collection of representative meeting scenarios to identify common decision-making elements and behavior similarities; and to elaborate a collection ...

Sensitivity analysis for criteria values in decision making matrix of SAW method