Goal-Based Decision Making - Using Goal-Oriented Problem Structuring and Evaluation Visualization for Multi Criteria Decision Analysis

[Context and motivation]: Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) and Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) are two fields that naturally complement each other for providing decision support. Particularly, GORE techniques complement MCDA in terms of problem structuration and visualization of alternative evaluation, and MCDA techniques complement GORE in terms of alternative elimination and selection. Yet currently, these two fields are only connected in an ad-hoc manner. [Question/Problem]: We aim to establish a clearcut link between GORE and MCDA. [Principal ideas/results]: We propose the Goal-based Decision Making (GDM) framework for establishing a clearcut link between GORE and MCDA. We provide computational support for the GDM framework by means of tool chaining, and illustrate GDM with an insurance case. [Contribution]: With GDM, we contribute (1) The GDM reference model, whereby we relate MCDA concepts and GORE concepts; and (2) The GDM procedural model, whereby we provide a decision making process that integrates GORE modeling and analysis techniques and MCDA methods.