Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support

ISBN: 9780521709781 出版年：2009 页码：502 Barany Cambridge University Press

Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support seeks to explore the interplay between the perspectives of many different disciplines in understanding how we may help decision makers to deliberate and decide better. The book is virtually unique in both its breadth and its recognition that the characteristics of decision making situations vary greatly and hence that the form of support required varies too. The study considers both the use of computers and databases to support decisions as well as human aids to building analyses and some fast and frugal tricks to aid more consistent decision making. In its exploration of decision support it draws together results and observations from, inter alia, decision theory, behavioural and psychological studies, artificial intelligence and information systems, philosophy, operational research and organisational studies. It spans the range of decision contexts from individual choice through decision making in groups and organisations to societal choice. One strength is in its discussion of the manner in which unaided intuitive decision making may be flawed and using this to drive the development of prescriptive support help real decision makers towards more rational decisions. The style is accessible to a wide range of disciplines, assuming little more than everyday knowledge of the many disciplines on which it draws.