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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Group decision"”.
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Essays in group decision-making
… them essentially examine the problem of making decisions that affect some group of individuals. The first essay is on moral hazard and looks at the principal's problem in a principal-agent(s) free-rider problem in which, unlike most existing work, the principal is not precluded from …
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Dynamics of Group Decision-Making
… Theory, specifically the dynamics of decision-making. The first explores how the desire for conformity results in long-run misperceptions due to uninformative decision-making. The second chapter studies multi-project collaborative experimentation. The final chapter analyzes whether …
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Disconfirmed expectations and group decision behavior
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Teamdec: a Group Decision Support System
TEAMDEC is a Group Decision Support System (GDSS). The development of a GDSS is supported by a broad spectrum of theories and techniques. Two major aspects of GDSS development were considered in TEAMDEC design: HCI and decision-making assistance. These two aspects interact to promote an interactive …
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A Comparison of Three Group Decision-Making Strategies and Their Effects on the Group Decision-Making Process
… of this experiment was to compare three group decision-making strategies and their effects on the group decision-making process. Two of the strategies, Dialectical Inquiry and Devil's Advocacy, were structured while the control condition, Unstructured Consensus Seeking, was non-directed, …
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Group Decision-Making and Strategic Position Change
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Information, Influence and Technology in Group Decision-Making
… the relation between information pooling and group decision making has suggested a disturbing conclusion: that group members fail to pool uniquely held information, leading to suboptimal group decisions. Instead, group members tend to discuss information with which they are all already …
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Improving Group Decision Making with Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces
Groups are generally superior to individuals in making decisions. However, time constraints and authoritarian leaders could nullify the potential advantages provided by groups. This thesis proposes a hybrid collaborative Brain-Computer Interface (cBCI) for improving performance in group …
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… do not make history-altering foreign policy decisions on their own. They evaluate options and set foreign policy in consultation with small groups of experts and advisors. In this dissertation, I explore the effects that groups of advisors have on foreign policy decision-making. We lack …
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Quantization of prior probabilities in Bayesian group decision-making
In Bayesian hypothesis testing, a decision is made based on a prior probability distribution over the hypotheses, an observation with a known conditional distribution given the true hypothesis, and an assignment of costs to different types of errors. In a setting with multiple agents and the …
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Computer assisted group decision making for education program development
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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The effects of authority on group decision-making performance
… of differing types of authority within decision-making groups. Assigned leader groups were representative of authority of position (Barnard, 1968). Emergent leader groups were representative of authority of leadership (Barnard). Authority type was not found to have a significant effect …
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Idea Generation in Group Decision-Making During School Shooting Simulations
Increasingly, many policy decisions are made by groups consisting of individuals with diverse educational backgrounds, experience and agendas. Such diversity within a group can lead to a rich tapestry of information on which to build an informed decision, but can also lead to communication …
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The Role of Expert Advice Formation Individual and Group Decision Making
This paper examined individual and group level layperson decision making when information from multiple experts is available. A total of 767 participants read four scenarios with various forms of expert advice, and then made decisions and gave confidence ratings. As expert advice format became more …
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The impact of individual expertise and public information on group decision-making.
… growing automatization, and interconnectivity of decision-makers worldwide, global problems with high complexity have to be dealt with by institutions, which not only struggle with financial shortages in doing so, but which also have to cope with changing mindsets, change management, and a lack of …
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An expert systems approach to group decision support systems pre-session planning.
Group Decision Support System (GDSS) pre-session planning is a complex task requiring considerable expertise. GDSS pre-session planning involves the selection of group participants and GDSS tools for a subsequent computer-supported group meeting. An effective plan is required to achieve a …
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The use of a group decision support system environment for knowledge acquisition
… well in eliciting the knowledge residing in a group of individuals. The complexity of the systems, the difficulties inherent in working with multiple experts, and the lack of appropriate tools have combined to make the knowledge acquisition task even more arduous and time consuming. Group …
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