Adaptive Mobile Decision Support

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Adaptive Mobile Decision Support Utilising
Personal Data Assistants
Developed by Paul Godley, Supervised by Dr Julie
Cowie

• Decision making is an everyday part of life. One
  of the key resources for this process is up to
  date and reliable data on which to base our
  decisions. This project is designed to
  facilitate the decision maker by collating and
  analysing both static and dynamic data sources,
  scoring the alternatives and then presenting the
  information to the mobile decision maker via
  their PDA.
• Although decision makers from a holistic range of
  genres could utilise a mobile decision making
  tool, the initial domain for development is that
  of contingency management. In an emergency /
  disaster situation, it is contingency
  managements raison detre to reduce the level of
  risk. Triage (comprehensive real time initial
  assessment) is a key part of contingency
  management and is the main focus for this
  prototype.
• The prototype has the following stages
• Analyse a multi-criteria model created by domain
  experts
• Insert the data entries into a database
• Retrieve database entries whose dynamic data
  sources need refreshed
• Obtain the updated dynamic criteria score
  from the pertinent web page (and update
  the database accordingly)
• Analyse and score the alternatives for each
  data model
• Present a summary of the results (and a
  breakdown of the scoring structure) direct to
  the decision makers PDA.

Examples of proposed GUI Design