Decision Support Resources

Definitions

Decision Support (DS) is a wide area aimed at supporting people who are faced with difficult decisions. For this, it provides a rich collection of decision analysis, simulation, optimization and modeling techniques, which include hierarchical multi-attribute models, decision trees, influence diagrams and belief networks. Also, DS involves software tools such as decision support systems, group decision support and mediation systems, expert systems, databases and warehouses.

Decision Support Systems (DSS) are interactive computer-based systems intended to help decision makers utilize data and models to identify and solve problems and make decisions. The major characteristics of a DSS are:

DSS incorporate both data and models;
they are designed to assist managers in their decision processes in semistructured (or unstructured) tasks;
they support, rather than replace, managerial judgment;
their objective is to improve the quality and effectiveness (rather than efficiency) of decisions.

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Software

1000Minds (PAPRIKA): Decision-making and conjoint analysis software
Analytica: Visual software for creating, analyzing and communicating quantitative decision models
Artiruno: Verbal decision analysis in Python
BPMSG AHP: Multi-criteria decision making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Criterium DecisionPlus: Multi-criteria decision making using AHP and SMART
DECERNS MCDA: Multi-criteria decision analysis system using MAVT/MAUT/F-MAVT, AHP, TOPSIS, PROMETHEE, FlowSort, ProMAA and FMAA
DecideIT: Multi-criteria decision analysis and decision tree modelling with imprecise information
Decision Deck: A software workbench which helps to design, execute and share complex MCDA/M algorithms and experiments
decisi-o-rama: An open-source Python library for multi-attribute value/utility decision analysis
Definite / BOSDA: Decision making software for a finite set of alternatives
DEX Software: A software suite for qualitative multi-criteria modeling using method DEX
DPL: Intuitive, graphical decision tree and influence diagram software tool for robust decision and risk analytics
D-SIGHT: [2024-07-04: Cannot login/register] Visual and interactive tool for multicriteria decision aid problems based on the PROMETHEE and MAUT methods
Entscheidungsnavi ("Decision Navigation"): A free decision support tool for value-focused thinking using MAUT
Expert Choice: AHP software for collaborative decision making Solution
FITradeoff: Flexible and Interactive Tradeoff elicitation procedure for multicriteria additive models in MAVT scope
GeNIe and SMILE: Tools for artificial intelligence modeling and machine learning with Bayesian networks and other types of graphical probabilistic models
GMAA: Generic Multiattribute Analysis
HIPRE: Decision support software using AHP and SMART
Hugin Expert: Bayesian Network analytics
IDSS Poznań (JAMM, jMaf, jRank, VisualUTA, ...). Related: Marcin Szeląg's software on DRSA (Dominance-based Rough Set Approach).
IRIS: Interactive Robustness analysis and parameters' Inference for multicriteria Sorting problems
JSMAA: Open source implementation of SMAA (Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis) methods in Java
LAMSADE: Software at the University Paris Dauphine: ELECTRE, UTA+, SRF, IRIS, ...
Logical Decisions: Hierarchical multi-criteria modeling and analysis
MAMCA: Web software for Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis
Mathematica: Technical computing
MCDA Calculator: A computational workflow that blends ELECTRE III, MAVT, PROMETHEE II, SMART/SMARTS/SMARTER, TODIM, TOPSIS and VIKOR
M-MACBETH: Multi-criteria problem structuring and evaluations involving both quantitative and qualitative criteria (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique)
MATLAB: Desktop environment for iterative analysis and design processes
MCDA package for R: Multicriteria Decision Aiding process with algorithms, preference elicitation and data visualisation functions
MCDA-ULaval: Software tool for multicriteria decision aiding using methods of the ELECTRE family
Netica: Software for working with belief networks and influence diagrams
odesys // helping you decide: A simple web-based multi-criteria tool
Precision Tree: Probabilistic decision analysis in Excel
PriEsT: Priority Estimation Tool using AHP
Prime Decisions: Decision analytic tool for interval-valued ratio statements in the specification of preferencies
pymcdm: Python library for multi-criteria decision-making
pyrepo-mcda: Python 3 library for multi-criteria decision analysis
R and R Studio: Free software environment for statistical computing and graphics
Rational Will: Integrated decision analysis software using decision trees, AHP, Bayesian inference, Markov decision process
RightChoice: Multi-criteria analysis package
SilverDecisions: Decision tree software on the web
Smart Decisions: Multi-criteria modeling and analysis using value trees and weighting
Super Decisions: Decision support software using AHP and ANP
Transparent Choice: AHP Software
TreeAge Pro: Building decision trees, Markov models and event-based simulations
TreePlan: Decision tree add-in for Excel
utility: Construct, evaluate and plot value and utility functions in R
ValueDecisions: Interactive Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in R
V.I.S.A: Web based multi-criteria decision making software using value trees and weighting
VIP: Variable Interdependent Parameters analysis
Visual PROMETHEE: Implementation of the PROMETHEE-GAIA multicriteria decision aid methodology
Web-HIPRE: A java applet for multiattribute modeling using MAVT, AHP, MAVT, SMART, SWING, SMARTER
Winpre: Implementation of techniques based on the propagation of imprecise preference statements in hierarchical weighting

Other software Lists

OR/MS Today: Decision Analysis Software Survey
MCDM Software
Wikipedia: Decision-Making Software