Objectives: the students should get acquainted with the best known methods aimed at structuring and formulating a decision problem and learn how to conduct a decision aiding process.
Contents:
- Decision Processes and Decision Aiding Processes.
- Problem Structuring Methods either oriented to one precise decision support method or independent.
- Formulating a decision problem and choosing a problem solving method.
- Revising and updating a decision problem.
- Constructing explanations and justifications.
Bibliography:
- Keeney R., Valued Focussed Thinking, Wiley, New York, 1992.
- Rosenhead R., Rational Analysis of a Problematic World, Wiley, New York, 1997.
