Abstract by the author: "Decision-making theories and practice typically ignore several factors that are critical to decision-making about complex matters. This conclusion follows from analysis of extensive data on group work involving numerous organizations and a wide variety of issues.
Credibility of decisions may rest on combining these factors into an integrated process system for group support:
■ The critical importance of learning during the processes
■ The extent of framebreaking and remodeling that may be required
■ The predominance of logic cycles in analyses and designs which seldom is recognized in the absence of the kind of support needed to produce them
■ The extent to which remodeling can occur in a modest time period, if suitable processes are used
■ The importance of integrative processes that combine organically the anthropological, the technological, and the formal logical"
Sent to GMU on 31 Jan 2001. The paper was presented in 1990, and appeared two years later in the published Proceedings of the conference, edited by Ambrose Goicoechea, Lucien Duckstein and Stanley Zionts The reprints file contains a nice computer-printed 9-page manuscript, to be used for distribution copies, rather than the proceedings itself, which has smaller pages and a poor print job. This paper is one of the seven titles which John assembled into a single tape-bound IASIS monograph under the title "Pre-1995 Essays on Complexity", which he had printed in July 1997. Note: I also find that there is a folder titled Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Box 82, Folder 1 at Warfield Special Collection in Fenwick Library. I don't know what's in it, probably assorted papers connected with the MCDM conference.
Springer Verlag is publisher but this paper is not listed in any of the Springer catalogs, and the actual Proceedings volume is also obscure. This is one document of which we have a pre-publication manuscript, so it is available digitally from Warfield Catalog. Paper hard copy of the publisher materials are in Warfield Collection Boxes 50/20 & 82/01, C0016, SCRC, George Mason Libraries .
R.w. 3/2/2007
