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 influƯ 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 conƯ trolling process risk, waste streams, and potential environmental consequences of accidental or routine release of hazardous chemicals are rapidly gaining in imporƯ 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 norƯ 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 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 A Decision-Support System for Systems Engineering and Management: The SEMS Experiment at NASA ....Pages 71-79 To Solve Discret Multicriteria Decision Problems Based on Logic-Based Decision Support Systems....Pages 80-89 MCDM: From ‘Stand-Alone’ Methods to Integrated and Intelligent DSS....Pages 90-99 Development of a Diagnosis Analysis System for Ion Implanter....Pages 100-108 A Multiple Criteria Algorithm for Automatic Layout of Data Flow Diagrams....Pages 109-118 On the Method to Arrange and Use Expertise....Pages 119-128 Intellectual Distributed Processing System Development....Pages 129-138 Japanese-English Machine Translation System Implemented in The Personal Computer....Pages 139-148 Multiattribute Utility and Derived Utility....Pages 149-154 Applications of Utility Theory in Artificial Intelligence Research....Pages 155-161 Portfolio Risk Aversion and Weighted Utility Theory....Pages 162-169 Expected Utility with a Threshold Function....Pages 170-179 Risk Management in a Hierarchical Multiobjective Framework....Pages 180-189 A Land Use Model for Spatial Policy Analysis and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Regional Development Planning....Pages 190-199 Multiattribute Utility Modeling of Cardiac Health Effects from Carbon Monoxide Exposure....Pages 200-209 On a Measurable Value Function Under Risk — A Descriptive Model of Preferences Resolving the Expected Utility Paradoxes....Pages 210-219 Intensity of Preference....Pages 220-229 Verifying Preference Separability for Additive Value Functions....Pages 230-238 The General Case of Dependence in Hierarchic Decision Theory....Pages 239-248 The New Dynamic Priorities Model and an Analysis of China’s Energy Strategy for the Future....Pages 249-256 Evaluation of Cardinal Utility Based on Weighted Paired-Comparisons....Pages 257-266 Design of a Decision-Support Workstation System for Hierarchical Multiobjective Inventory Control....Pages 267-276 A Rationale for Additive Decomposition in Multiattribute Utility Assessment....Pages 277-285 An Approach to Preference Vector Derivation Using Geometric Least Square....Pages 286-295 Assessing Weights by Means of Pairwise Comparisons....Pages 296-308 Bias in Assessment of Attribute Weights....Pages 309-318 Bicriterion Decision-Making under Randomness and Worth of Perfect Information....Pages 319-327 The Perspective of Possibilistic Models in Decision Making....Pages 328-337 An Interactive Fuzzy Satisficing Method for Multiobjective Linear Fractional Programming Problems with Fuzzy Parameters....Pages 338-347 Multicriteria Optimization Problems in Statistics....Pages 348-357 A Prototype Selection Committee Decision Analysis and Support System, SCDAS: Theoretical Background and Computer Implementation....Pages 358-365 Scalarization, Optimality Conditions and Group Decision Making....Pages 366-372 Two Aspects of Group Decision Support System Design....Pages 373-382 Multi-Person Decision Support with Knowledge Base Systems....Pages 383-392 Socio-Economic Interpretation of Multiple Agents Decision Making by Game Theory....Pages 393-402 Microcomputer — Based Games for the Purposes of Environmental Protection and Managemental Training....Pages 403-411 Interactive Modeling and Gaming-Simulation for Group Decision Making....Pages 412-421 Multiactor Decision Analysis for Regional Investment Allocation....Pages 422-431 Back Matter....Pages 432-453 These proceedings include papers presented at the VII-th Internatio nal Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making which was held in Kyoto/Japan on August 18-22, 1986.