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- Title
Artiruno: A free‐software tool for multi‐criteria decision‐making with verbal decision analysis.
- Authors
Arfer, Kodi B.
- Abstract
Verbal decision analysis (VDA) is a family of methods for multi‐criteria decision analysis that require no numerical judgements from the agent. Although many such methods have been developed, they share the potential issue of asking the agent many more questions than necessary, particularly under multilevel approaches. Furthermore, whether VDA improves decisions, compared to no intervention, has yet to be investigated empirically. I introduce a new VDA method, Artiruno, with a freely licensed implementation in Python. Artiruno makes inferences mid‐interview so as to require minimal input from the agent, while using a multilevel scheme that allows it to ask complex questions when necessary. Inferences are facilitated by an axiom allowing comparisons to be partitioned across groups of criteria. Artiruno's performance in a variety of simple and complex scenarios can be verified with automated software tests. For an empirical test, I conducted an experiment in which 107 people from an Internet subject pool considered an important decision they faced in their own lives, and were randomly assigned to use Artiruno or to receive no intervention. These subjects proved mostly able to use Artiruno, and they found it helpful, but Artiruno seemed to have little influence on their decisions or outcomes.
- Subjects
DECISION making; MULTIPLE criteria decision making; COMPUTER software testing; PYTHON programming language; PYTHONS
- Publication
Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1057-9214
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/mcda.1827