Decision AnalysisPub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1287/DECA.1.1.25.17849
S. Cantor
{"title":"Clinical Applications in the Decision Analysis Literature (Comment on Keefer et al. 2004)","authors":"S. Cantor","doi":"10.1287/DECA.1.1.25.17849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/DECA.1.1.25.17849","url":null,"abstract":"The author provides a comment to the companion literature review, focusing on clinical applications of decision analysis. The theory and application of clinical decision analysis has decreased in the management science and operations research literature, but has become a field in and of itself, with contributions to the medical and analytical communities. Decision scientists should be aware of methodological contributions in the health decision science literature.","PeriodicalId":46460,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analysis","volume":"59 6","pages":"25-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72461007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Decision AnalysisPub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1287/DECA.1.1.29.17846
R. Hämäläinen
{"title":"Reversing the Perspective on the Applications of Decision Analysis (Comment on Keefer et al. 2004)","authors":"R. Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1287/DECA.1.1.29.17846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/DECA.1.1.29.17846","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks into the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of the field of the applications based on DA techniques; focusing especially on MAVT. The need for best practices and bias-resistant analysis procedures is pointed out. In most application papers there are no reports on the verification or testing of the procedures used. The Internet provides great opportunities in the delivery of DA software and e-learning material. Public sites such as Decisionarium (www.decisionarium.hut.fi) provide encouragement and a low entry level to try value tree analysis in new applications. There are also great opportunities in reaching out the other MCDA communities such as AHP practitioners. Today the need and demand for decision support is perhaps growing most rapidly in environmental problems. A clear trend is also the integration of DA into GIS and other models. Many of the applications are now published in non-OR/MS subject area journals.","PeriodicalId":46460,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analysis","volume":"35 1","pages":"29-35"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81341475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Decision AnalysisPub Date : 2004-03-01DOI: 10.1287/DECA.1.1.36.17843
D. Keefer, C. Kirkwood, J. Corner
{"title":"Response to Comments on Keefer et al. (2004)","authors":"D. Keefer, C. Kirkwood, J. Corner","doi":"10.1287/DECA.1.1.36.17843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1287/DECA.1.1.36.17843","url":null,"abstract":"Our article \"Perspective on Decision Analysis Applications, 1990--2001\" provides a comprehensive listing of decision analysis applications published between 1990 and 2001 in the 16 journals that we surveyed and uses this together with results from a previous survey to identify, and provide perspective on, trends and developments in decision analysis applications. Cantor (2004) and HA¤mA¤lA¤inen (2004) provide useful comments and additional references that supplement the material in our article, and we agree with many of their comments. However, we do not agree with their view that our definition of \"decision analysis\" is too restrictive. We believe that, after 35 years, the core of decision analysis is now well established and that we have used the generally understood definition in selecting the applications included in our article.","PeriodicalId":46460,"journal":{"name":"Decision Analysis","volume":"33 1","pages":"36-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2004-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80204939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}