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Ujué Agudo; Karlos G. Liberal; Miren Arrese; Helena Matute – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Automated decision-making is becoming increasingly common in the public sector. As a result, political institutions recommend the presence of humans in these decision-making processes as a safeguard against potentially erroneous or biased algorithmic decisions. However, the scientific literature on human-in-the-loop performance is not conclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, Artificial Intelligence, Court Litigation
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Songer, Robert Wesley; Yamamoto, Tomohito – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
Recommender systems in education aim to help students make good decisions about the direction of their learning. The design of such systems in conventional research has treated the decision making process of students as a black box and assumes the best recommendations to be those that accurately predict student choices. Such an approach overlooks…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Engineering Education
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Jackson, Cath; Cheater, Francine M.; Peacock, Rose; Leask, Julie; Trevena, Lyndal – Health Education Journal, 2010
Objective: The objective of this feasibility study was to evaluate the acceptability and potential effectiveness of a web-based MMR decision aid in supporting informed decision-making for the MMR vaccine. Design: This was a prospective before-and-after evaluation. Setting: Thirty parents of children eligible for MMR vaccination were recruited from…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Immunization Programs, Foreign Countries, Pretests Posttests
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Klein, Joseph – International Journal of Educational Management, 2010
Purpose: The literature indicates the advantages of decisions formulated through intuition, as well as the limitations, such as lack of consistency in similar situations. The principle of consistency (invariance), requiring that two equivalent versions of choice-problems will produce the same preference, is violated in intuitive judgment. This…
Descriptors: Intuition, Decision Making, Content Analysis, Reliability
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Baba, A. Fevzi; Kuscu, Dincer; Han, Kerem – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2009
The complex nature and uncertain information in social problems required the emergence of fuzzy decision support systems in social areas. In this paper, we developed user-friendly Fuzzy Group Decision Support Systems (FGDSS) software. The software can be used for multi-purpose decision making processes. It helps the users determine the main and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Social Problems, Research Assistants
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Hartley, Roger; Almuhaidib, Saud M. Y. – Computers and Education, 2007
Information Technology is developing rapidly and providing policy/decision makers with large amounts of information that require processing and analysis. Decision support systems (DSS) aim to provide tools that not only help such analyses, but enable the decision maker to experiment and simulate the effects of different policies and selection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Support Systems, Decision Making, Information Technology
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Thornley, Richard; Spence, Matthew W.; Taylor, Mark; Magnan, Jacques – Journal of Research Administration, 2002
Describes an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research initiative to enhance the review process for its training awards using a new tool based on the ProGrid decision-assist software. Implementation resulted in several modifications to the review process in the areas of definition, rationality, fairness, timeliness, and responsiveness; the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Evaluation
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Grimshaw, D. J. – International Journal of Information Management, 1989
Reviews current applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and suggests that industry can use such systems to aid in decision making. The discussion covers factors that will influence future use of GIS, potential uses of GIS in the private sector, and the need to develop an integrated GIS. (CLB)
Descriptors: Databases, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Foreign Countries
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Telem, Moshe – Computers and Education, 1990
Describes the development of an educational decision support system (EDSS) in Israeli schools. The Israeli educational system is described, the integration of computers into school administration is discussed, the use of management information systems (MIS) is explained, and a structural framework for the implementation of an EDSS is presented.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Educational Administration
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Yeo, Gee Kin; Nah, Fui Hoon – Simulation & Gaming, 1992
Describes the design of a decision support system (DSS) for a management game called MAGNUS (Management Game for National University of Singapore). Built-in models for performance analysis and decision making are explained; database query and model building are described; and future work is discussed. (11 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Computer Games, Computer Software Development, Databases
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Richardson, John A.; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1993
Describes MultiLIS, an integrated library system. Five sidebars discuss the State University of New York (SUNY) Library Automation Implementation Program, Frame Relay telecommunications technology, the Expert Choice Decision Support System, tools for enhancement of data quality in online catalogs, and library automation in the Saskatoon (Canada)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems, Elementary Secondary Education