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.
Rich, There is a paper by Peter Neumann, entitled "Why don’t Americans use cost-effectiveness analysis". http://www.ajmc.com/files/articlefiles/AJMC04MayNeumann308_12.pdf This is not what you are looking for, but I think it still may be of interest. A book by the same author further explores those ideas: "Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Health Care : Opportunities and Barriers". Best regards, Javier ----------------------------------------------------------------- Francisco Javier Diez Phone: (+34) 91.398.71.61 Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Fax: (+34) 91.398.88.95 UNED. c/Juan del Rosal, 16 http://www.ia.uned.es/~fjdiez 28040 Madrid. Spain http://www.cisiad.uned.es _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai
