Although models and modeling are central to engineering design, they have received much less attention than or in the philosophy of science. This paper draws on insights from philosophical literature science elucidate engineering. Many apparent differences a matter degree. Models design do not function solely as representational more general epistemic vehicles. Rather, facilitating decision mak...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the possible role of neural nets for decision support. The discussion will be conducted along two connected lines. The rst line regards the possibilities to solve combinatorial optimization problems with multi-layered perceptrons. Particular attention is paid to the required complexity of such neural nets. The second line regards the use of neural nets as a k...

The care offer to people living with HIV/AIDS must transcend specialized outpatient services and include the participation of the Family Health Strategy. By understanding the importance of integration between these two points in the care network, the study aimed to build a decision support model to assist professionals of specialized health services in identifying behavior patterns in the use o...

Consumers who use electronic decision aids such as comparison-shopping agents may be overwhelmed by the amount of choice information available to them, leading to an inability to choose or dissatisfaction with the ultimate choice, a state of “choice overload.” Two experiments were designed to test the choice overload hypothesis. Eight choice tasks of different sizes were presented to subjects. ...

Despite the proven efficacy of decision aids as interventions for increasing patient engagement and facilitating shared decision making, they are not used routinely in clinical care. Findings from a project designed to achieve such integration, conducted at five primary care practices in 2010-12, document low rates of distribution of decision aids to eligible patients due for colorectal cancer ...