Events for 01-2010

Speaker Dr. Kevin Wong Research Structural Engineer Department of Commerce and the Federal Government National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) USA Abstract The design, construction and use of decision support systems in water resources and environmental management is illustrated by the application of GMCR II to a controversy over the pollution of an underground aquifer that was apparently caused by a chemical factory. The decision support system GMCR II helps analysts gain a systematic understanding of strategic conflicts in the real world, thereby producing valuable strategic advice for decision makers. The capacity of GMCR II to model a conflict effectively depends on its flexible procedures to elicit key characteristics of the conflict, such as the relative preferences of each ...