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Value-Driven Expert Systems for Decision Support

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The intent of both expert systems and decision analysis is to help decision makers make better informed decisions. The manners in which these tools provide this help are quite distinct from each other. Indeed, both decision analysis and expert systems have complementary strengths. Consequently, each has significant advantages that could be usefully adapted by the other. This article focuses on how decision analysis could appropriately be used to improve the potential usefulness of expert systems designed for decision support.

This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014–84-K-0332 titled “Value-Focused Thinking and the Study of Values.” It is based on a paper originally presented at the International Conference on Multi-attribute Decision Making via O.R.-Based Expert Systems at the University of Passau, Germany, April 20–27, 1986.

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Ralph L. Keeney

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  1. Department of Public Administration, Rockefeller College, State University of New York, 12222, Albany, NY, USA

    Jeryl L. Mumpower (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, USA

    Ortwin Renn (Associate Professor of Environment Technology, and Society) (Associate Professor of Environment Technology, and Society)

  3. Decision Analysis Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St., WC2A 2AE, UK

    Lawrence D. Phillips (Director) (Director)

  4. Mathematics and Statistics, Research Department, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA

    V. R. R. Uppuluri (Director) (Director)

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Keeney, R.L. (1987). Value-Driven Expert Systems for Decision Support. In: Mumpower, J.L., Renn, O., Phillips, L.D., Uppuluri, V.R.R. (eds) Expert Judgment and Expert Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86679-1_9

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