Decision Theory: General Books

This text aims to equip students with a solid understanding of theories, concepts, and principles behind compensation decision-making. It includes information about the detailed procedures used implimentation of compensation practices.

Covers the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. This volume is suitable for practitioners in business and government, as well as academics and students who are interested in naturalistic decision making.

People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign, treating them as absolutes and ignoring the consequences of following them blindly. The author explores these deeply felt intuitions and their effect on the public domain.

The idea of risk has risen to prominence in political debate and in matters of public policy. This collection follows on from the programme for studying risk and blame that was implied in Purity and Danger and developed in subsequent publications.

Decision problems are pervaded with incomplete knowledge - imprecision and/or uncertain information, both in the problem description and in the preferential information. This volume addresses various theoretical and practical aspects related to the handling of this incompleteness.

Describes the quantitative and qualitative methods that help decision-makers to structure and clarify difficult problems and to explore the implications of pursuing different options. This book examines: models and decision-making in health care; methods for clarifying complex decisions; and, models for service planning and resource allocation.

A mixture of historical and forward-looking essays on key topics in decision analysis.

Explores what it means to be rational in a variety of contexts, from personal decisions to those affecting large groups of people. This title introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources.

In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. This book presents research on the psychology of decision making related to economics, business and finance.

Features a profile decomposition, which quickly resolves two centuries old controversies of Condorcet and Borda, demonstrates, that the rankings of pairwise and other methods differ because they rely on different information, makes the famous Arrow's Theorem predictable, and simplifies the construction of examples.

This proceedings volume contains a selection of 87 papers presented at the Symposium on Operations Research (SOR 99) that was held at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg from September 1-3, 1999.

Gary Klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced. This work documents human strengths and capabilities.

Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. This work is a culmination of some of the studies.

Encouraging reflection upon the inescapable ethical dimensions of the conduct of research, Ian Gregory explores how ethical concerns inform not only the conduct of research but how they enter into the very decision to engage in a piece of research, its analysis and the use of its outcomes.

A mixture of historical and forward-looking essays on key topics in decision analysis.

The AHP has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource, allocation and priority setting problems throughout industry and business. This book is based on successful application experience.

A study of the theory of bargaining and voting power and how it applies to real decision-making contexts.

In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions, and preferably good ones, has become even more difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. This book presents important research on the psychology of decision making related to health care and medicine.

Provides an accessible introduction to the construction methods needed to create the best possible designs for use in modeling decision-making. This work covers disciplines from marketing to transportation, and environmental resource economics to public welfare analysis.