Expertise and Decision Support

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wright, George. (Editor), Bolger, Fergus. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1992.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Computer science.; Psychology, general.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Computer Science, general.
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This volume brings together a range of contributors from Europe and North America. All contributions were especially commissioned with a view to e- cidating a major multidisciplinary topic that is of concern to both academics and practitioners. The focus of the book is on expert judgment and its int...

Table of Contents:

• On the Nature of Expertise
• The Psychology of Experts An Alternative View
• Improving Decisions and Judgments The Desirable versus the Feasible
• Reliability and Validity in Expert Judgment
• On the Competence and Incompetence of Experts
• Epistemic Strategies Causal Thinking in Expert and Nonexpert Judgment
• Sociological Perspectives on the Nature of Expertise
• Issues in the Interaction of Expertise and Decision Support Systems
• Perspectives on Expertise in the Aggregation of Judgments
• Decision Conferencing A Unique Approach to the Behavioral Aggregation of Expert Judgment
• Knowledge Engineering Issues for Decision Support
• Human Expertise, Statistical Models, and Knowledge-Based Systems
• Synthesis of Expert Judgment and Statistical Forecasting Models for Decision Support.