Hybrid Approaches of Verbal Decision Analysis in the Selection of Project Management Approaches

AbstractDecision support methods aim at assisting in the decision-making process by simplifying the analysis of the problem and justifying the choice of a particular potential action. Recent researches have shown that the hybridization of methods is able to overcome limitations presented by the methods when applied separately: the classification of alternatives before submitting them to an ordination methodology would be an e ective way of filtering the set to be ordered. Specific Practices of Capability Maturity Model Integration were analyzed through a decision making model, assisted by the methods SAC and ZAPROS III-i. The results will be compared to previous studies

Towards the Selection of Prototypes for Educational Tools: A Hybrid Model in the Verbal Decision Analysis

Abstract Aiming to attend the growing demand for professionals with knowledge about software processes, this paper presents ideas for creating educational tools that supports its teaching. The paper defines six options of educational tools prototypes and illustrates the research of preferences elicitation in the application of a hybrid method using ORCLASS and PACOM Decision Support Systems (DSS) from Verbal Decision Analysis (VDA) framework to classify and rank the prototypes according to the decision maker preferences. The application with prototypes was chosen because the software engineering is an area that allows a wide research in the preferences elicitation process. The research results show that, the adoption of qualitative methods of decision support can benefit significantly the selection of the interface aiming to use the selected interface from the approved group and ranked for future development of real educational tools applications

OrclassWeb: A Tool Based on the Classification Methodology ORCLASS from Verbal Decision Analysis Framework

The decision making is present in every activity of the human world, either in simple day-by-day problems or in complex situations inside of an organization. Sometimes emotions and reasons become hard to separate; therefore decision support methods were created to help decision makers to make complex decisions, and Decision Support Systems (DSS) were created to aid the application of such methods. The paper presents the development of a new tool, which reproduces the procedure to apply the Verbal Decision Analysis (VDA) methodology ORCLASS. The tool, called OrclassWeb, is software that supports the process of the mentioned DSS method and the paper provides proof of concepts, that which presents its reliability with ORCLASS