A Componential Analysis of Pilot Decision-Making

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 842-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Barnett ◽  
A. Stokes ◽  
C.D. Wickens ◽  
T. Davis ◽  
R. Rosenblum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Student Pilots ◽  
Decision Performance ◽  
Valid Predictor ◽  
Decision Choices ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making

In an effort to construct and validate an information-processing model of pilot decision-making, a microcomputer-based system, known as MIDIS, has been developed. A parallel effort resulted in the compilation of a cognitive test battery designed to assess individual differences in those cognitive attributes determined to be important in effective decision making. The processing model of pilot judgment is validated to the extent that pilots with strengths in particular cognitive attributes perform well on those decision scenarios determined to impose demands on those same abilities. Forty professional, instructor, and student pilots served as subjects in this validation study. The results reported here represent data from twenty of the highly-experienced instrument-rated pilots. The results indicated that the cognitive test of running memory span provided a valid predictor of the optimality of pilot's judgments. A test of risk assessment predicted pilot confidence and latency in the decision choices. Few of the other tests, including a test of declarative knowledge, provided significant correlations with the three attributes of decision performance for the pilots in the group studied to date.

scholarly journals Small-Group Interaction among Professional Librarians

1997 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen R. Tower
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Decision Performance ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Libraries are using small groups to make decisions, and it is important that the decisions these groups make are effective. Small-group scholars argue that group processes and interactions play an important role and influence effective decision-making. Randy Y. Hirokawa developed a theory called Vigilant Interaction Theory which maintains that group interaction affects decision-making performance by directly shaping the quality of vigilance that leads to a final choice. Small groups consisting of professional librarians were used to test Hirokawa’s theory, and the results showed that group decision performance is directly related to the group’s efforts to perform critical vigilant decision-making functions. Specifically, groups that show a pattern generating more alternative solutions are more likely to develop effective decisions.

Parliamentarism and the Legislative Branch

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Sajó ◽  
Renáta Uitz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
The Law ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Law Making

This chapter examines the relationship between parliamentarism and the legislative branch. It explores the evolution of the legislative branch, leading to disillusionment with the rationalized law-making factory, a venture run by political parties beyond the reach of constitutional rules. The rise of democratically bred party rule is positioned between the forces favouring free debate versus effective decision-making in the legislature. The chapter analyses the institutional make-up and internal operations of the legislature, the role of the opposition in the legislative assembly, and explores the benefits of bicameralism for boosting the powers of the legislative branch. Finally, it looks at the law-making process and its outsourcing via delegating legislative powers to the executive.

Computing an effective decision making group of a society using social network analysis

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghyun Kim ◽  
Deying Li ◽  
Omid Asgari ◽  
Yingshu Li ◽  
Alade O. Tokuta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making

Effective Decision Making in a Life Company

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-166
Author(s):  
M. Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Past Life ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Value Measurement

ABSTRACTIn the recent past life companies have made many decisions which they have had cause to deeply regret. This paper looks at the range of decision making theories available. It then examines recent examples of decisions that had unfavourable consequences and explores why they were taken, and goes on to describe a systematic approach to decision making which can help management assess more objectively the difficult choices confronting them today. The approach does not require espousal of any specific decision theory or method of value measurement. The focus is on the decision making process and the organisation's capacity to handle change. The paper identifies the three requirements for effective decision making.

Application of Unascertained Measure-Entropy Evaluation Model for Program Selection of Shaft Construction under Complex Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 225-226 ◽  
pp. 407-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Qing Li ◽  
Mu Jie Chen ◽  
Wen Qing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Entropy Weight ◽  
Program Selection ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Effective Decision Making ◽  
Measure Entropy ◽  
Selection Of

An unascertained measure-entropy evaluation model for the program selection of shaft construction under complex conditions is established so that a scientific and effective decision making method is provided in this paper, the evaluation model of shaft construction is established based on unascertained measure and entropy weight theory, then, the model proposed in this paper is applied to evaluate three shaft construction program comprehensively, and the evaluation results show validity and applicability of the model.

Similarity-Based Decision Support for Internet Enabled Supply-Web Interactions

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raj Veeramani ◽  
Narayanan Viswanathan ◽  
Shailesh M. Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Job Shop ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Effective Decision ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Effective Decision Making

Abstract New approaches for decision making are emerging to support the use of the Internet for supply-web interactions in the manufacturing industry. In this paper, we discuss one such paradigm, namely similarity-based decision support. It recognizes that knowledge of similar experiences can support rapid and effective decision making in various forms of supply-web interactions. We illustrate this approach using two prototype systems, WebScout (an agent-based system for customer–supplier matchmaking in the job-shop machining industry context) and TOME (Treasury of Manufacturing Experiences — an Intranet application to aid manufacturability assessment in foundries).

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