Creative Thinking and Modelling for the Decision Support in Water Management

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This paper reviews the state of art in knowledge and preferences elicitation techniques. The purpose of the study was to evaluate various cognitive mapping techniques in order to conclude with the identification of the optimal technique for the NetSyMod methodology. Network Analysis – Creative System Modelling (NetSyMod) methodology has been designed for the improvement of decision support systems (DSS) with respect to the environmental problems. In the paper the difference is made between experts and stakeholders knowledge and preference elicitation methods. The suggested technique is very similar to the Nominal Group Techniques (NGT) with the external representation of the analysed problem by means of the Hodgson Hexagons. The evolving methodology is undergoing tests within several EU-funded projects such as: ITAES, IISIM, NostrumDSS.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 81.2005

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Planning Models; Planning Policy
• Subject: Creative modelling ; Cognitive mapping ; Preference elicitation techniques ; Decision support

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lasut, Anna
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• (where): Milano
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74152
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