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Decision-aiding software : skills, obstacles and applications / Stuart S. Nagel.

By: Nagel, Stuart S, 1934-.
Contributor(s): Policy Studies Organization.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Policy Studies Organization series.Publisher: London : Macmillan in association with the Policy Studies Organization, 1991Description: [315] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0333526015; 0312042124 (St. Martin's Press).Subject(s): Decision making -- Data processing | Decision support systemsDDC classification: 153.830285
Contents:
Part I: An overview of decision-aiding software -- A microcomputer program for decision-making -- Part II: Skills the software enhances -- Choosing among alternatives -- Allocating scarce resources -- Explaining and predicting behavior -- Teaching with microcomputers -- Part III: Obstacles the software helps overcome -- Multiple dimensions on multiiple goals -- Multiple missing information -- Multiple and possibly conflicting constraints -- The need for simplicity in spite of all that multiplicity -- Part IV: Applications to diverse fields -- Public policy problems -- Law problems -- All fields of knowledge -- Part V: Supplementary materials -- The menu-tree for the decision-aiding software -- Testimonials for the software -- Bibliographies for the software -- A tutorial introduction to the P/G% software.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 153.830285 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00021008
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Bibliography: (pages 284-293) and indexes.

Part I: An overview of decision-aiding software -- A microcomputer program for decision-making -- Part II: Skills the software enhances -- Choosing among alternatives -- Allocating scarce resources -- Explaining and predicting behavior -- Teaching with microcomputers -- Part III: Obstacles the software helps overcome -- Multiple dimensions on multiiple goals -- Multiple missing information -- Multiple and possibly conflicting constraints -- The need for simplicity in spite of all that multiplicity -- Part IV: Applications to diverse fields -- Public policy problems -- Law problems -- All fields of knowledge -- Part V: Supplementary materials -- The menu-tree for the decision-aiding software -- Testimonials for the software -- Bibliographies for the software -- A tutorial introduction to the P/G% software.