Article ID: | iaor20081943 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 2247 |
End Page Number: | 2260 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
Journal: | Decision Support Systems |
Authors: | Hmlinen Raimo P., Mustajoki Jyri, Sinkko Kari |
Keywords: | energy, management |
In this paper, we study the new opportunities offered by the interactive use of advanced multicriteria software in decision conferencing. We analyze and make observations on this approach in two one-day decision conferences on the planning of later phase countermeasures in off-site nuclear emergency management. The participants' individual use of the software in the preference elicitation phase was an essential new characteristic of these conferences. It turned out to be a feasible and well accepted process. We shall discuss the requirements for the facilitation and computer support in this kind of an approach.