Open AccessVERBAL DECISION MAKING ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Dmitry Kochin,
Leonas Ustinovichius
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
technological and economic development of economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 2029-4921
pISSN - 2029-4913
DOI - 10.3846/13928619.2004.9637650
Subject(s) - correctness , computer science , dialog box , consistency (knowledge bases) , decision analysis , preference , decision maker , management science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , algorithm , mathematical economics , statistics , world wide web , economics
The paper presents the ideology of a qualitative approach to decision making ‐ verbal decision analysis. The authors have analyzed existing quantitative approaches and pointed out their main disadvantages. They formulated the requirements for decision‐making methods taking into account these disadvantages: psychological correctness of a dialog with decision maker (DM), strict mathematical proof of the methods and checking of DM information for consistency. The authors present the results of research on psychological correctness of operations of preference elicitation from DM. Several existing verbal decision analysis methods are briefly mentioned.