A NORMATIVE APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING DECISION PROPAGATION PATHS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference
Year: 2018
Editor: Marjanović D., Štorga M., Škec S., Bojčetić N., Pavković N.
Author: Hassannezhad, Mohammad; Clarkson, P. John
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
Page(s): 1559-1570
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0436
Abstract
In real-world, making the right decision at the right time is very challenging. Additional complexity is related to the fact that, a change in one part may propagate across multiple subsystems and therefore, it is very difficult to predict how decisions behave. To respond this need, this paper contributes a conceptual framework to present a novel perspective on modelling decisions, so-called Decision Propagation System – DPS. It is an intelligent approach to reflect how organisational dynamics and information dependencies can affect decision propagations, thus helping make Smart decisions.
Keywords: decision making, decision automation, complexity, expert systems, dynamic decision network