@article{22368,
      note = {Price : US$ 110.00; Inv.# Supplier : Amazon.Com, Seattle,  WA; Recd 24/08/98; Table of Contents : 1. Individual  decision making : approaches and methods : Participants of  the process of decision making; Economico-mathematical  approach to problems of choice; Mathematical modeling in  problems of choice; System approach to problems of choice;  Computer approach to the problems of choice; Psychological  approach to the problems of choice; Mutual influence; 2. A  new approach to unstructured problems of decision making :  Unstructured problems with qualitative variables; Features  of unstructured problems; The role of decision making  methods; Requirements on the methods of decision making;  Measurements; Valid information elicitation for  constructing a decision rule; Valid transformation of  verbal information; Closed procedures; Learning procedures;  Explanations; The new approach and construction of decision  methods; 3. The method ZAPROS-LM for partial rank-ordering  of multiattribute alternatives : Main ideas of the method  ZAPROS-LM; Problem formulation; An approach to the problem  solution; Elicitation of information on DM's preferences;  Elimination of intransitivity in DM's responses;  Implementation of information on the DM's preferences;  Implementation of obtained information for comparison of  real alternatives; Task modification in case of criteria  dependency; Illustration of the method ZAPROS-LM using a  simple example; The evaluation of the procedure's  complexity for the decision maker; The interactive system  ZAPROS; An application of the method ZAPROS for R&D  evaluation; 4. The method PACOM for the selection of the  best alternative : Main ideas of the method PACOM (PAired  COMpensation); Task formulation; The general approach to  the task solution; Procedure for comparison of two  alternatives; Aggregation of information about comparison  of pairs of alternatives; The interactive system PACOM;  Implementation of the method PACOM for the analysis of the  gas pipeline route selection problem; 5. The method ORCLASS  FOR ordinal classification of multiattribute alternatives :  Main ideas of the method ORCLASS (ORdinal CLASSification);  The multicriteria classification problem in decision  making; The task formulation; An approach to the rational  procedure for construction of the complete ordinal  classification; Detection and elimination of  inconsistencies in the decision maker's responses; Class  boundaries and their implementation; Behavorial aspects of  the ordinal classification task; Interactive system ORCLASS  and its implementation; Implementation of the system  ORCLASS for evaluation of R&D projects in a medical  research institution;.},
      author = {Larichev, Oleg I. and Moshkovich, E. M.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/22368},
      title = {Verbal decision analysis for unstructured problems /},
      abstract = {This book is devoted to a special class of decision making  problems, called `unstructured problems'. The peculiarity  of these problems is connected with the essentially  qualitative description of the involved factors and the  subjective character of relations between these factors.  The work describes the world of human decisions and methods  of action that improve the chances of making sensible  decisions in a complicated, contradictory and incompletely  definite environment. A new procedure of decision making in  non-structured problems is constructed and some methods  that are logical inferences from it are demonstrated. The  studies proceed from the contradiction between the  normative methods of decision making, which prescribes the  decision maker how to make the best decisions and the  descriptive results showing how in real life people act  when making a decision. The authors propose an approach  that integrates modelling procedures with elicitation  methods.},
      recid = {22368},
      pages = {258 pages ;},
}