Ebook: Toward Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems: Volume 2 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making Held at Kyoto, Japan August 18–22, 1986

In the past, technological as well as economic forces dominated the evolution of industrial structures: these factors have been treated extensively in numerous studies. However, another major factor which has begun to have a decisive influ­ ence on the performance of the chemical industry is technological risk and public and environmental health considerations, in particular those related to toxic and hazardous substances used in industrial production processes. The issues of con­ trolling process risk, waste streams, and potential environmental consequences of accidental or routine release of hazardous chemicals are rapidly gaining in impor­ tance vis CI vis narrow economic considerations, and are increasingly reflected in national and international legislation. In the context of several ongoing R&D projects aiming at the development of a new generation of tools for "intelligent" decision support, two related problem areas that have been identified are: (i) Structuring the industry or plant for the minimum cost of production as well as least risk - e.g., toxicity of chemicals involved. In this multi-criteria framework, we seek to resolve the conflict between industrial structure or plant design established by economic considerations and the one shaped by environmental concerns. This can be formulated as a design problem for nor­ mal production conditions. In section 3.1. and 3.2. an approach on how to deal with this problem at the industry and plant level is discussed.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages N2-XII
An Interactive Knowledge Support System with Imperfect Information: Toward A Microcomputer Implementation of ARIADNE....Pages 1-10
Object Model for a Deep Knowledge System....Pages 11-19
A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Control Asynchronous and Concurrent Processes....Pages 20-29
A Human-Friendly Interface System for Decision Support Based on Self-Organized Multi-Layered Knowledge Structures....Pages 30-39
Intelligent Decision Support for Technology Assessment: The Chemical Process Industry....Pages 40-55
A Framework for Choosing the Most Appropriate Discrete Alternative Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Method in Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems....Pages 56-64
The Intelligent Decision Support System: Synthesis of a Decision Support System and an Expert System....Pages 65-70
To Solve Discret Multicriteria Decision Problems Based on Logic-Based Decision Support Systems....Pages 71-79
MCDM: From ‘Stand-Alone’ Methods to Integrated and Intelligent DSS....Pages 80-89
Development of a Diagnosis Analysis System for Ion Implanter....Pages 90-99
A Multiple Criteria Algorithm for Automatic Layout of Data Flow Diagrams....Pages 100-108
On the Method to Arrange and Use Expertise....Pages 109-118
Intellectual Distributed Processing System Development....Pages 119-128
Japanese-English Machine Translation System Implemented in The Personal Computer....Pages 129-138
Multiattribute Utility and Derived Utility....Pages 139-148
Applications of Utility Theory in Artificial Intelligence Research....Pages 149-154
Portfolio Risk Aversion and Weighted Utility Theory....Pages 155-161
Expected Utility with a Threshold Function....Pages 162-169
Risk Management in a Hierarchical Multiobjective Framework....Pages 170-179
A Land Use Model for Spatial Policy Analysis and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Regional Development Planning....Pages 180-189
Multiattribute Utility Modeling of Cardiac Health Effects from Carbon Monoxide Exposure....Pages 190-199
On a Measurable Value Function Under Risk — A Descriptive Model of Preferences Resolving the Expected Utility Paradoxes....Pages 200-209
Intensity of Preference....Pages 210-219
Verifying Preference Separability for Additive Value Functions....Pages 220-229
The General Case of Dependence in Hierarchic Decision Theory....Pages 230-238
The New Dynamic Priorities Model and an Analysis of China’s Energy Strategy for the Future....Pages 239-248
Evaluation of Cardinal Utility Based on Weighted Paired-Comparisons....Pages 249-256
Design of a Decision-Support Workstation System for Hierarchical Multiobjective Inventory Control....Pages 257-266
A Rationale for Additive Decomposition in Multiattribute Utility Assessment....Pages 267-276
An Approach to Preference Vector Derivation Using Geometric Least Square....Pages 277-285
Assessing Weights by Means of Pairwise Comparisons....Pages 286-295
Bias in Assessment of Attribute Weights....Pages 296-308
Bicriterion Decision-Making under Randomness and Worth of Perfect Information....Pages 309-318
The Perspective of Possibilistic Models in Decision Making....Pages 319-327
An Interactive Fuzzy Satisficing Method for Multiobjective Linear Fractional Programming Problems with Fuzzy Parameters....Pages 328-337
Multicriteria Optimization Problems in Statistics....Pages 338-347
A Prototype Selection Committee Decision Analysis and Support System, SCDAS: Theoretical Background and Computer Implementation....Pages 348-357
Scalarization, Optimality Conditions and Group Decision Making....Pages 358-365
Two Aspects of Group Decision Support System Design....Pages 366-372
Multi-Person Decision Support with Knowledge Base Systems....Pages 373-382
Socio-Economic Interpretation of Multiple Agents Decision Making by Game Theory....Pages 383-392
Microcomputer — Based Games for the Purposes of Environmental Protection and Managemental Training....Pages 393-402
Interactive Modeling and Gaming-Simulation for Group Decision Making....Pages 403-411
Multiactor Decision Analysis for Regional Investment Allocation....Pages 412-421
Back Matter....Pages 422-431
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