Toward Interactive and Intelligent Decision Support Systems : Volume 2 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making Held at Kyoto, Japan August 18-22, 1986

I. Intelligent Decision Support Systems -- An Interactive Knowledge Support System with Imperfect Information: Toward a Microcomputer Implementation of ARIADNE -- Object Model for a Deep Knowledge System -- A Distributed Problem Solving Approach to Control Asynchronous and Concurrent Processes -- A Human-Friendly Interface System for Decision Support Based on Self-Organized Multi-Layered Knowledge Structures -- Intelligent Decision Support for Technology Assessment -- A Framework for Choosing the Most Appropriate Discrete Alternative Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Method in Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems -- The Intelligent Decision Support System: Synthesis of a Decision Support System and an Expert System -- A Decision-Support System for Systems Engineering and Management: The SEMS Experiment at NASA -- To Solve Discrete Multicriteria Decision Problems Based on Logic-Based Decision Support Systems -- MCDM: From ‘Stand-Alone’ Methods to Integrated and Intelligent DSS -- Development of a Diagnosis Analysis System for Ion Implanter -- A Multiple Criteria Algorithm for Automatic Layout of Data Flow Diagrams -- On the Method to Arrange and Use Expertise -- Intellectual Distributed Processing System Development -- Japanese-English Machine Translation System Implemented in the Personal Computer -- II. Utility and Risk Analysis -- Multiattribute Utility and Derived Utility -- Applications of Utility Theory in Artificial Intelligence Research -- Portfolio Risk Aversion and Weighted-Utility Theory -- Expected Utility with a Threshold Function -- Risk Management in a Hierarchical Multiobjective Framework -- A Land Use Model for Spatial Policy Analysis and Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Regional Development Planning -- Multiattribute Utility Modeling of Cardiac Health Effects from Carbon Monoxide Exposure -- III. Value Analysis and Intensity of Preference -- On a Measurable Value Function under Risk: A Descriptive Model of Preferences Resolving the Expected Utility Paradoxes -- Intensity of Preference -- Verifying Preference Separability for Additive Value Functions -- IV. Hierarchy Analysis and Weighting Methods -- The General Case of Dependence in Hierarchic Decision Theory -- The New Dynamic Priorities Model and an Analysis of China’s Energy Strategy for the Future -- Evaluation of Cardinal Utility Based on Weighted Paired-Comparisons -- Design of a Decision-Support Workstation System for Hierarchical Multiobjective Inventory Control -- A Rationale for Additive Decomposition in Multiattribute Utility Assessment -- An Approach to Preference Vector Derivation Using Geometric Least Square -- Assessing Weights by Means of Pairwise Comparisons -- Bias in Assessment of Attribute Weights -- V. Incomplete Information -- Bicriterion Decision-Making under Randomness and Worth of Perfect Information -- The Perspective of Possibilistic Models in Decision Making -- An Interactive Fuzzy Satisficing Method for Multiobjective Linear Fractional Programming Problems with Fuzzy Parameters -- Multicriteria Optimization Problems in Statistics -- VI. Group Decisions -- A Prototype Selection Committee Decision Analysis and Support Systems, SCDAS: Theoretical Background and Computer Implementation -- Scalarization, Optimality Conditions and Group Decision Making -- Two Aspects of Group Decision Support System Design -- Multi-Person Decision Support with Knowledge Base Systems -- Socio-Economic Interpretation of Multiple Agents Decision Making by Game Theory -- Microcomputer — Based Games for the Purposes of Environmental Protection and Managemental Training -- Interactive Modeling and Gaming-Simulation for Group Decision Making -- Multiactor Decision Analysis for Regional Investment Allocation -- Appendices -- 1. Softwares in Computer Demonstration Session -- 2. List of Participants -- 3. Organization -- 4. List of Sponsors.