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The Decision Analysis Initiative 2010-2015
DAI 2010-2015
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The Decision Analysis Initiative (DAI) is the 2010-2015 Extension Programme of the George Boole Foundation in support of the diffusion of innovation through practical demonstrations and the dissemination of information on the technologies, techniques and benefits of decision analysis for organizations, businesses, governance and society. The activities of the DAI have a practical orientation and will include online demonstrations of decision analysis systems design, implementation, operation and assessments of benefits. The DAI will review the current and emerging decision analysis challenges and the most significant recent developments will be identified and explained.
A dedicated website
We have set up a dedicated website to report on the activities of the DAI and to provide access to demonstrations and other activty outputs. In order to access this site click on this link The Decision Analysis Initiative.
An extension service
The Decision Analysis Initiative (DAI) is organized as an extension service. Extension is an activity of spreading useful information and knowledge about new technologies1 and techniques2 as a proactive means of raising awareness, providing opportunities to assess their worth and to provide guidance in the most appropriate way to use them by those interested in adopting a new or improved practice. The term innovation refers to the process of something being done for the first time3. In this context, extension has the role of spreading innovation through geographic space so that an increasing number of people benefit and thereby stimulating a sustained rate of economic growth4. Extension systems have existed for many years in the agricultural sectors as a system to assist farmers take decisions in a complex environment. The approach is particularly relevant to the promotion of decision analysis.
Online demonstrations
An important part of the Decision Analysis Initiative (DAI) will be the setting up and running of online demonstrations of decision analysis applications. These will be supported by additional information in the form of help systems, didactic material, audio-visuals, briefs and other relevant documentation. The initial demonstrations are being assembled so as to present a graded sequence covering successful applications illustrating aspects of functionality as well as integrated systems. Demonstrations will include core decision analysis models used to explain the objective and methods applied according to the knowledge domain.
Demonstrations will be set up online for "hands on" evaluation by different users, such as members of a professional body, to assess the utility of different types of decision analysis implementation. All demonstrations, except for some general introductory applications, are supported by our sponsors and will involve systems of interest to our sponsors or groups they represent. Sponsored demonstrations will require some input from the sponsor or representatives from the group they represent as involving four basic sequential activities:
- 1. decision-maker workshops
- 2. computational logic workshops
- 3. programming & implementation
- 4. decision-maker assessment
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1 Technology is the specific combination of resources, tools and devices used to undertake some action such as producing an industrial product, the processing of information or the production of a crop.
2 Technique is the way in which a given technology is used by a specific person or work group. Quite often people using the same technology can achieve different levels of performance as a direct result of differences in technique. The evolution in technique is a learning process whereby individuals adapt the way they work as they gain more practice (experience) in making using any given technique; technique is constantly evolving.
3 Mansfield, E., "The Economics of Technological Change", pp.99-100, W.W.Norton & Co., 1968.
4 McNeill, H.W., "Planning & Managing Actions to Stimulate Agricultural Efficiency & National Economic Growth", in "Towards a Market-based Privatization Strategy for Hungarian Agriculture", pp. 40-48, Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest, 1993.
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