Selecting Analytic Approaches for Decision Situations. A Matching of Taxonomies.

摘要

This report attempts to develop a conceptual framework within which the state-of-the-art of applied decision analysis can be condified. The framework consists of a three-way taxonomy: decision situations, analytic options, and performance measures. Within this framework, a tentative and illustrative set of practical guidelines is presented to help decision analysis users and practitioners identify appropriate analytic approaches for any given decision situation. An attempt is made to suggest a taxonomic framework for codifying the state-of-art- of decision analysis, a language for expressing matching generalizations which associate the appropriate analytic option to a particular situation. This language has three main components, each of which has an exhaustive numerical coding scheme.