Theses within this research project have analyzed different decision support methods in
relation to the development of the new regulation policy. Raisa Hannus’s
thesis describes a three-stage procedure which supports the Environmental Impact
Assessment process and was tested students. Some of the findings were that in value tree
analysis some preference elicitations were difficult and that compromise solutions are
likely to gain more support than the extreme alternatives. New decision alternatives were
generated using the Joint Gains software based
on the method of improving
directions developed in Systems Analysis Laboratory. The method performed well in
this testing. Susanna
Alaja’s thesis focused on human judgment biases related to decision problem
structuring. It was found that the splitting bias could not be totally avoided even if the
decision makers were trainee to avoid it before the prioritization.
The project emphasizes developing decision support on the practical
level using the newest multiobjective models and the possibilities provided by the
Internet. This area is desribed and discussed in general in the review paper by Hämäläinen et.al.
Jyri Mustajoki, developed Web-HIPRE (the
first internet based decision analysis software) for interactive weighting. In addition,
there is a general purpose internet based Opinions-Online
program for survey's and the comparison of alternatives by using web voting and
prioritization.
Virpi
Junttila’s thesis and the ISMO program applies dynamic multiobjective
optimization to the generation of the feasible regulation policies. This is both
methodologically new and important for problems related to lakes and rivers which almost
always are intrinsically dynamic. The manuscript by Hämäläinen and
Mäntysaari describes the dynamic interval goal programming approach used in ISMO
program.
A Dynamic Interval Goal
Programming Approach to the Regulation of a Lake-River System
Decision and Negotiation Support in Multi-Stakeholder
Development of Lake Regulation Policy
SPAIRS - Simple PAIRS (Interval SMART/SWING) in Lake
Regulation Planning
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