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Software. Decision-making software: tools and tips. By Alex Rostozky, Nick Kumarr and Michael Shumovich The article reviews modern decision-making tools and proposes the most effective criteria to choose the right package.

Decision-making software: tools and tips

It also covers a brief comparison of top 5 decision-making tools – Expert Choice, Decision Manager, MindDecider Pro, TreeAge Pro and DPL Syncopation. Nowadays more and more mind-mapping and decision making tools find their way to our life. A common mind just fails to process vast amount of variants, objectives and parameters that accompany our daily choices. Of course, there are Excel-like tables known to almost every user in the world but sometimes they provide insufficient tools to draw a clear picture of a decision model and help to make a right choice. 1. Buying a New Car. Introduction This illustrative tutorial is a simple case about a user, John, who intends to buy a new car.

Buying a New Car

To get a quick overview, take a look at the video below or keep on reading for detailed explanations. John is actually hesitating among six different models. Those are: a BMW 1 series, a BMW 3 series, an AUDI A3, an AUDI A4, a Volvo C30, a Volvo S40. Buying a new car is not an easy task. Improve The Way You Make Decisions By Using Advanced Technologies. See all your data automatically processed into an accurate ranking of the alternatives based on the criteria you specified.

Improve The Way You Make Decisions By Using Advanced Technologies

Compare the options side by side, in interactive graphs and clear visual presentations. Simplify the task of keeping track of all the details and easily manage them as a whole with the guidance of D-Sight's advanced and scientifically proven methodology. D-Sight's ranking algorithms derive an accurate assessment of your preferences from simple comparisons in an interactive process. Our pre-defined workflow will enable you to render your decision-making process time-efficient. The structured procedure allows you to define the alternatives you are facing, set the criteria they are compared against.

Search Results for “vote”: SourceForge. Loomio. LiquidFeedback – Interactive Democracy. Gigwalk: Hire Your Smartphone Army. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Open Assembly. Theory. Judgment aggregation webpage: judgement aggregation, discursive dilemma, doctrinal paradox. Sitemap overview ... papers on ... ** important disclaimer ** introduction A new problem of social choice has attracted the attention of scholars in law, economics, political science, philosophy and computer science.

Judgment aggregation webpage: judgement aggregation, discursive dilemma, doctrinal paradox

Judgment aggregation is distinct from the more familiar problem of preference aggregation. This page provides a bibliography of online and published research on this paradox and on judgment aggregation more generally. what is the "discursive dilemma" or "doctrinal paradox"? The "doctrinal paradox" illustrates the aggregation problem (Kornhauser and Sager 1986, 1993; Kornhauser 1992, the apparent first occurrence of the label "doctrinal paradox"; Chapman 1998). Suppose that a three-member court has to make a judgment on whether a defendant is liable for a breach of contract. Universal Domain. Anonymity. Systematicity. Theorem (List and Pettit 2002). Other developments include the following. the doctrinal paradox and legal discussions Kornhauser, L. Kornhauser, L. Kornhauser L. Active projects - Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people.

Systemic Consensus - Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people. From Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people Systemic Consensus is a method to build decisions about several suggestions upon finding the minimal dissent, upon distillation of those choices which cause the lowest potential of conflict in the group of deciders.

Systemic Consensus - Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for all the people

So if You have five suggestions for weekend activities, and three of these suggestions would make a full weekend agenda for You and Your friends, then use SC. Each participant evaluates each proposal with up to ten resistance points. Each suggestion's sum of resistance points gives the group resistance against that proposal. The best suggestion(s) should be the one(s) with the smallest group resistance. Uwe didn't give a vote for "tea time". Otherwise "tea time" would be counted as one of the best suggestions, replacing "hiking" on the agenda.

Basics of group decision making. Two heads are better than one A human mind always tends to be assured in the made decision, and what's more, it wants to spread the responsibility for the decision between the largest possible number of participants.

Basics of group decision making

Especially when it concerns vital or social issues. That is why people came to such popular group thinking forms as commitees, boards, commissions, chambers, etc. The effectiveness of group thinking as largely depends on what type of problem a group faces. There can be 3 basic problem types: logic or numeric tasks knowledge-based issues creative problem solving Psychology analyses show that collaborative work is most effective with the first and the second types.

Group decision making. Group decision-making (also known as collaborative decision-making) is a situation faced when individuals collectively make a choice from the alternatives before them.

Group decision making

The decision is then no longer attributable to any single individual who is a member of the group. This is because all the individuals and social group processes such as social influence contribute to the outcome. The decisions made by groups are often different from those made by individuals. Group polarization is one clear example: groups tend to make decisions that are more extreme than those of its individual members, in the direction of the individual inclinations.[1] There is much debate as to whether this difference results in decisions that are better or worse.

Factors that impact other social group behaviours also affect group decisions. Groupthink. Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Groupthink

Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative viewpoints, by actively suppressing dissenting viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences. Loyalty to the group requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions, and there is loss of individual creativity, uniqueness and independent thinking. Decision making. Sample flowchart representing the decision process to add a new article to Wikipedia.

Decision making

News & Events - Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas. July 25, 2011.

News & Events - Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas

Civic Labs: Connected Citizens. Connected Citizens: Re-imagine How Government Works. What bugs would you fix? What would be the killer app? How would you combine citizen and government data to improve services and quality of life in your community? The next decade holds profound opportunities for rapid innovation in governance and government services. New civic technologies will be built with open data, ubiquitous cloud connectivity, real-time sensing, and intelligent infrastructure. This future will be made out of the new relationships between citizens and their governments, creating new ways for government services to be designed and delivered.