Interactive Decision Support for Open Systems

Challenges to Decision Support in a Changing World

Volume

Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Real institutions are "open," which can result in unpredictable changes in both their internal resources and external environment. This implies that a broadly useful approach to decision support must not rely on either prediction or on gathering all relevant information before useful calculations can be made. This paper describes an approach to highly interactive decision support based upon using ensembles of alternative models, robust option analysis, and adaptive strategies.