Decisions Professional

Introduction

Decision making software sure has made many leaps and bounds in the past 30 years or so. And Decisions Professional is no exception. Decision Making used to be fairly sinple, but as you can see here it has taken a whole world on it's own. And today decision making is a science, a very elaboate science to which decision making goes far beyond the simple process of making a decision.


Decisions Professional aims to take this science of decision making to a whole new level. By making it multi architecture to begin with. Thus offering multiple types of decision making in one tree of decision. This will bring decision making to a science, as it has become, and we shall see how far we can push the decision making process in this fashion. I really believe this will make an ultimate decision making engine that will fit quite nicely with the user interface I plan on giving it.



Decision Making Architectures

Behind the scene will be a plethora of different decision making architectures that will work together in other words be interchangeable and basically completely integratable with each other. The different architectures are:


  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
  • Aggregated Indices Randomization Method (AIRM)
  • Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
  • Analytic Network Process (ANP, an extension of AHP)
  • Elimination and Choice Expressing Reality (ELECTRE)
  • Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique (MACBETH)
  • Multi-attribute global inference of quality (MAGIQ)
  • Potentially All Pairwise RanKings of all possible Alternatives (PAPRIKA)
  • Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE)
  • Evidential Reasoning Approach for MCDM under hybrid uncertainty

Each of this is essentially a decision making engine in and of itself. Some might not see how to integrate everyone of these together, but I see it. I just want the decision making process to reach a level of exactitude as high as it can be and I believe that this integration will allow just that.



The Minding Behind The Project

The minding is simple, everything will be in the configuration of the decision making process. Each node will have the ability to be any of the decision making architectures. And from there will also have their own set of data or condition or formulas as per the arcdhitecture used. You can appreciate how this will help clearly define and act upon each decision factor including an importance factor.


From this minding, you will be able to define your criteria to it's fullest and when the system will process this it will do so according to the architecture used. Which means if you take the time to define your decision making needs completely, ultimately it will return with a decision making scheme (or recipe) that will yield the result you need to have so that the decision you make with this system will be as informed as you allowed it to be in your decision making scheme.


Of course you can use one architecture only as they were meant to be originally designed for. But I do believe that by integrating them will allow more flexibility in each criteria. Thus defining your decision points much more clearly and that will make a difference in your decision and your importance factor in each decision making node.



The User Interface

For a user interface I am thinking be in an interactive environment. A command based interface that incorporates the editing of all types of architecture in a live fashion. Incorporated with some editors that makes the whole process that much easier and that less human error prone entry. But yeah this live entry scheme would fit more then adequately support the decision making process.


It will be text yes but I do plan on giving it a nice interface a very functional interface for the project at hand. And it will be too everything from a menu based interface down to each architecture having it's own set of interface components and rules. You'll see it will be as awesome as any GUI can be. And it will give this projects an edge as far as integrating the architectures with the user inteface.



In Conclusion

There's no question in my mind that this project will be an intriguing in so many ways. I am always open to suggestion on this and any other projects I have, I am also opened to to new projects. so feel free to Contact Me and tell me all about your suggestion. There's something I skipped over, something I'm not seeing, you can let me know on this form.


Just remember, these projects will ultimately turn into something you can use, so fell free to suggest anything about them or new ones too. You might have an idea that ust might make these products that much better, you just never know.