A systematic integration model to support complex decision‐making in a dynamic environment

TLDR: The model facilitates the complex decision-making by structuring a number of subsequent decision tasks into an integrated decision- making process (IDMP).

Abstract: A systematic integration model is designed by synthesizing the systems approach and the Analytic Hierarchy Process. It aims to deal with complex decision-making which involves multiple interconnected subsequent decision-making tasks in a dynamic environment. The model facilitates the complex decision-making by structuring a number of subsequent decision tasks into an integrated decision-making process (IDMP). Identification of appropriate criteria is shown to depend on an individual task environment. Alternatives related to any subsequent decision-making task are evaluated with respect to both a set of criteria determined by the assessment of a particular task environment and a decision choice from its prior decision-making task. Therefore, decisions throughout the IDMP are consistent with not only different task environments but also the overall objective of the complex decision-making. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.