2023/12/13 by Berkay H. Tosunlu, Tosunlu, Berkay H., Joseph H. A. Guillaume +3 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Cognitive Science and Mapping #Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence #Complex Systems and Decision Making #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.07838
openalex publication_date 2023/12/13 · openalex created_date 2023/12/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Conflict transformation and management are complex decision processes with extremely high stakes at hand and could greatly benefit from formal approaches to decision support. For this purpose we develop a general framework about how to use problem structuring methods for such purposes. More precisely we show how to transform cognitive maps to value trees in order to promote a more design-oriented approach to decision support aiming at constructing innovative solutions for conflict management purposes. We show that our findings have a much wider validity since they allow to move from a descriptive representation of a problem situation to a more prescriptive one using formal procedures and models.