Examples of 1000minds Decision Making applications.
Health decision-making
- Prioritizing patients for access to elective (non-urgent) health care (more »)
- Prioritizing spending on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, equipment, procedures, etc (more »)
- Identifying criteria for classifying and diagnosing diseases (more »)
- Identifying and prioritizing treatment guidelines (more »)
- Prioritizing infectious diseases for R&D (more »)
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Responding to climate change
- Comparing the value for money of possible geo-engineering responses to climate change, such as space sun shades, cloud whitening and tree planting
- Researching how home owners value the various aspects of rooftop photovoltaic systems when they think about using them to power their homes
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Land use and urban planning
- Selecting waste landfill sites based on trade-offs between interested parties, and applying the approach to a large city in South Korea
- Investigating factors influencing business location decisions and how they will affect New Zealand’s future urban forms if transport fuel costs rise
- Researching current and future housing choices of the residents of a small city (Dunedin) and the implications for urban planning
Prioritizing police work
- Prioritizing police investigations of criminal activity and the deployment of resources based on criteria such as seriousness and ‘solvability’
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Environmental impact assessments
- Prioritizing responses to pollution of streams and storm water drains based on assessing environmental, community, regulatory and logistical considerations
- Evaluating residents’ willingness to trade-off the expected costs and benefits associated with the construction of a cement factory in a rural area
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ICT
- Creating an efficient Quality-of-Service-based resource scheduling algorithm based on factors such as CPU speed, memory, bandwidth, etc.
- Assigning credibility indices to web-based documents based on multiple criteria related to the documents’ characteristics such as date, type, quality, etc.
Judging competitions
- Judging theatre awards entries for best design, promotion, visiting production, script, male and female performers, director and production of the year
- Ranking new business ideas and selecting finalists, based on quality of product or service, originality, and commercial potential or community good
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Awarding scholarships
- Creating a points system for awarding scholarships based on students’ grade point average, past research performance and ‘fit’ with department’s research programs
Helping students choose courses
- Tools to help young people – and their parents, teachers, etc – to rank subjects they might like to major in at university based on their skills and interests
Research, study and teaching
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More than 1000 research projects – including peer-reviewed publications, conference papers, PhDs, Masters, student projects – at 420+ universities and other research organizations have been completed or are underway
- 1000minds is also a great teaching resource for courses incorporating Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM, also known as Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, MCDA) and Conjoint Analysis