ABSTRACT

Experts, despite their importance and value, can be double-edged swords. They can make valuable contributions from their deep base of knowledge, but those contributions may also contain their own biases and pet theories. Therefore, selecting experts, eliciting their opinions, and aggregating their opinions must be performed and handled carefully, w

chapter 1|36 pages

Knowledge and ignorance

chapter 2|60 pages

Information-based system definition

chapter 3|28 pages

Experts, opinions, and elicitation methods

chapter 4|82 pages

Expressing and modeling expert opinions

chapter 5|26 pages

Consensus and aggregating expert opinions

chapter 6|16 pages

Guidance on expert-opinion elicitation

chapter 7|30 pages

Applications of expert-opinion elicitation