Entry Date:
February 19, 2008

Socio-Technical Decision Making

Principal Investigator Donna Rhodes

Co-investigators Adam Ross , Warren Seering , Daniel Hastings , Richard de Neufville , Olivier de Weck , Daniel Frey , Christopher Magee , Daniel Roos , Hugh L N McManus


This research area seeks to develop multi-disciplinary representations, analysis methods, and techniques for improving decision making for socio-technical systems. Examples include:

(*) Constructs for representing socio-technical systems to perform impact analysis
(*) Decision strategies for coupling in system of systems
(*) Visualization of complex trade spaces and saliency of information
(*) Understanding and mitigating cognitive biases in decision processes