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Almost all decisions people make are based on multiple factors or criteria. Decision makers generally pursue multiple, and often conflicting, objectives. A feasible solution that is optimum with respect to all such objectives or decision criteria almost never exists, and a satisfactory compromise solution is generally sought. Multi-criteria decision-making as a field of research deals with problem...
The concept and methodology of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and the strategy to promote efficacy of acupuncture in clinical practice are introduced in this paper. Then it focuses on using the data mining approaches to integrate the primary evidence from real practice based on conventional clinical data and secondary evidence by systematic literature review or Meta-analysis. The new analytic method...
Taken in isolation, algorithmic "data sciences" approaches and human-centred "visual analytics" methods hold great promise for operationalizing archival datasets and streaming real-time data in support of strategic and operational decision-making across a broad range of human activities.
This research was motivated by a desire to move decision making about health workforce planning from an anecdotal basis to a more evidence-based process. The principal outcome of this study is a framework for the classification and prioritization of health workforces within the New Zealand health sector. The framework was developed and validated using the Delphi Method, a decision-making methodology...
Data quality metadata (QM) is the set of quality measurements associated with the data. Literature has demonstrated that the provision of QM can improve decision performance. In this paper, we examine how information systems, specifically, decision support systems can be designed to help users make better use of QM, using a two-stage approach. In stage-1, we develop a theoretical model and validate...
Constrained Rationality is a formal qualitative goals and constraints reasoning framework to analyze and rationalize about single and multi-agent strategic decisions/conflicts. The framework is extended in this paper by adding mechanisms to: 1) model the agents' priorities, emotions and attitudes within the context of the conflict; and 2) elicit the agents' cardinal and ordinal preferences over their...
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