The fact that Lumina Decision Systems (lumina.com), Decisioneering (decisioneering.com), Palisade (www.palisade.com), TreeAge Software (www.treeage.com), and other companies selling decision analysis software are still in business, and have been for many years, is pretty good evidence that corporate America does use decision analysis. You can probably find some case studies on their websites.
On Mar 29, 2006, at 7:31 AM, Rich wrote: > After describing decision analysis to my class recently, a student > actually applied it on his job. A question then came up. Where has it > been successfully applied in real life problems? Although it's been > around my whole life (at least since Jimmy Savage's book in 1954), I > actually am aware of few real applications. There are a lot of > publications that discuss problems that look real (e.g. Clemen's > book), but is any of this real? Did Penzoil really analyze the > problem as Clemen describes? Of course sitting in my `ivory tower' I > would not know what goes on in corporate America, etc. So I would be > curious to learn of any real applications of decision analysis, > especially ones that are published. This could be in an expert system > (that people use) or to make a one time decision. > Thanks, > Rich > > Richard E. Neapolitan > Professor and Chair of Computer Science > Northeastern Illinois University > 5500 N. St. Louis > Chicago, Illinois 60625 > > _______________________________________________ > uai mailing list > uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU > https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
