Using a Software Tool for Public Decision Analysis: The Case of Nacka Municipality

Danielson, Mats; Ekenberg, Love; Idefeldt, Jim; Larsson, Aron

doi:10.1287/deca.1070.0088

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“…Here we have chosen to model the decision problem into some more details than normally is done and utilized a flexible method putting fewer constraints on the decision-makers while allowing for imprecise statements regarding the background information. Imprecision is handled by allowing intervals and comparative statements, while still making this computationally tractable, as shown in Danielson et al [30] and Ding et al [31].…”

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A MCDM Analysis of the Roşia Montană Gold Mining Project

2015

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Abstract:The need and estimated utility for a structured analysis of the Roşia Montană gold exploitation project have been palpable in the Romanian public sphere during the last 15 years and there is a vast amount of conflicting information and opinions on the benefits and risks involved. This article provides a comprehensive decision analysis of the Roşia Montană project. Over 100 documents from the past years have been gathered regarding the Roşia Montană mining project, which cover the main official, formal and less formal documents covering the case and produced by a wide range of stakeholders. These were then analyzed while designing a multi-criteria tree including the relevant perspectives under which the most commonly discussed four alternatives were analyzed. The result of this can be translated into a valuable recommendation for the mining company and for the political decision-makers. If these stakeholders want the continuation of the project and its acceptance by civil society, the key challenge is to increase the transparency of the process and improve the credibility and legal aspects; if these aspects cannot be met, the decision-makers need to pay attention to the alternatives available for a sustainable development in the area. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 7262

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A MCDM Analysis of the Roşia Montană Gold Mining Project

2015

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“…The outputs evaluation will shows which of the two facilities (alternatives) uses ICT the most in its healthcare functions, while the outcomes analysis suggests the alternative that accrued the most benefits as a result of the ICT use. DecideIT offers various forms of evaluation to explain the model results (Danielson et al, 2007a;Danielson et al, 2010). This study specifically relied on ordinal ranking, expected value graphs and tornado graphs.…”

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“…This creates a hierarchical decision model, preferably using a decision support tool. In this study the DecideIT decision support tool (Danielson et al, 2007a;Danielson et al, 2003;Hansson et al, 2008) was used to analyse and evaluate the decision problem. DecideIT is based on multi attribute value theory (Dyer, 2005) and supports both precise and imprecise information.…”

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Using a Structured Approach to Evaluate ICT4D: Healthcare Delivery in Uganda

Kivunike

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E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Using a case from the healthcare delivery sector, we demonstrate how a structured evaluation approach can facilitate the measurement of actual ICT contributions in various contexts. Typically, such are intricate due to the complexities inherent in the environments, making it difficult to evaluate the relationship between ICT and the benefits it intends to achieve to a reasonable degree. The approach suggested in this paper tries to partly remedy some of these complications, by facilitating qualitative data elicitations, aggregation, analysis and evaluation. To make this computationally meaningful, a decision support tool for handling numerically imprecise information is used for the data analysis and evaluation details. The results of this indicate that such an approach makes at least some meaningful input for practitioners and policymakers. In comparison to the qualitative in-depth approaches this approach facilitates a one-point in time assessment, which is less resource intensive, but provides prompt and substantial insight on the development performance of ICT4D initiatives. A similar approach would also be applicable to different sectors, and can utilize a broader scope of criteria, as well as incorporate views from several categories of stakeholders.

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“…Elicitation or anticipation of stakeholder preferences is done or assessed in the form of utility statements for each stakeholder or stakeholder group regarding each specific policy option and criteria weights. Stakeholders give the different outcomes a ranking order if they are unsure of their preferred choice and methods for computational decision analysis with imprecise information is promoted in order to support such statements, see (Larsson et al 2005;Danielson et al 2007). The result is a preference assessment for each decision maker and/or stakeholder and the value tree is constructed with stakeholders as the lowest level of the tree, see Fig.…”

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Modeling for Policy Formulation: Causal Mapping, Scenario Generation, and Decision Evaluation

Larsson

Ibrahim

2015

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Part 4: Policy Formulation and ModellingInternational audienceIn this paper we present a work process with associated operational research modeling and analysis tools for the policy formulation stage of the Lindblom policy cycle process model. The approach exploits the use of causal maps for problem structuring and scenario generation of policy options together with decision analysis for evaluating generated scenarios taking preferences of decision makers and stakeholders into account. The benefits of interest when exploiting this integrated modeling approach is to enable for; (i) problem structuring and facilitating understanding and communication of a complex policy problem, (ii) simulation of policy consequences and identification of a smaller set of policy options from a possible very large set of possible options, and (iii) structured decision evaluation of the generated alternative policy options

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Using a Software Tool for Public Decision Analysis: The Case of Nacka Municipality

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

A MCDM Analysis of the Roşia Montană Gold Mining Project

A MCDM Analysis of the Roşia Montană Gold Mining Project

Using a Structured Approach to Evaluate ICT4D: Healthcare Delivery in Uganda

Modeling for Policy Formulation: Causal Mapping, Scenario Generation, and Decision Evaluation

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