"Computer Assisted Reasoning... Computer Assisted Reasoning for Decision Support Most approaches to computerized decision support are based on a rationalist perspective... for the optimal decision. Indeed, for any fixed method for computing a decision, participants will be prone to bias their assessments to support the answer they favor. Classical... approaches to decision support suppress these pragmatic issues, and in doing so, they frequently fail to address the central problems facing decisionmakers. In practice, the reasoning...

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in the automatic generation of large numbers of individual experiments, and tools supporting the visualization of these results. EXPLORATORY MODELING Exploratory modeling uses..., or to support reasoning based upon an analysis of risks, opportunities, or scenarios (Bankes 1993). While the use of computational experiments is becoming increasingly popular, appreciation... utilization of computational experiments to support reasoning. Exploratory modeling is primarily useful for situations where insufficient information exists to build a veridical model...

or sampling strategies that support valid conclusions or reliable insights based on a limited number of computational experiments. Exploratory modeling can be contrasted... suggesting the plausibility of its outcomes.) Instead, exploratory modeling methodology must support reasoning about general conclusions through the examination of the results..., to discover significant phases, classes, or thresholds among the ensemble of plausible models, or to support reasoning based upon an analysis of risks, opportunities, or scenarios...

decision support systems. Bankes was a Professor of Information Science and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado. He is a member of the board...