Decision-Aiding Software Skills, Obstacles and Applications [Paperback]

The aim of this book is to clarify what is involved in using decision-aiding software in evaluative decision-making at a non-technical level. Topics covered include the skills that software enhances, the obstacles that it helps overcome, and the applications to diverse fields.Part 1 An overview of the decision-aiding software: a microcomputer program for decision-making. Part 2 Skills the software enhances: choosing among alternatives; allocating scarce resources; explaining and predicting behaviour; teaching. Part 3 Obstacles the software helps overcomes: multiple dimensions on multiple goals; multiple missing information; multiple and possibly conflicting constraints; the need for simplicity in spite of all that multiplicity. Part 4 Applications to diverse fields: public policy problems; law problems; all fields of knowledge. Part 5 Supplementary materials: the menu trade for the decision-aiding software; testimonials for the software.