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Decision makers are subject to rely upon their biased mental models to solve ill-structured decision problems. While mental models prove to be very helpful in understanding and solving ill-structured problems, the inherent biases often lead to poor decision making. This study deals with the issue of biases by proposing Semantic De-biased Associations (SDA) model. SDA model assists user to make more informed decisions by providing de-biased, and validated domain knowledge. It employs techniques to mitigate biases from mental models; and incorporates semantics to automate the integration of mental models. The effectiveness of SDA model in solving ill-structured decision problems is illustrated in this paper through a case study.
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Memon, T., Lu, J., Hussain, F.K. (2012). Semantic De-biased Associations (SDA) Model to Improve Ill-Structured Decision Support. In: Huang, T., Zeng, Z., Li, C., Leung, C.S. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7664. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34481-7_59
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