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Discretionary Decision Making

2012
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Efficiency analysis accounting for internal and external non-discretionary factors [PDF]

Computers and Operations Research, 2009
This paper develops a method based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) for efficiency assessments taking into account the effect of non-discretionary factors.
Ana S Camanho, Clara B Vaz
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A decision model based on gene expression programming for discretionary lane-changing move [PDF]

Transportation Planning and Technology
This study focuses on modeling Discretionary Lane-Changing (DLC), which accounts for the majority of lane-change moves in traffic flows. A binary decision model for lane-changing moves was improved with the method of Gene Expression Programming (GEP ...
Raz Mohammad Choghtay, Muhammed Emin Cihangir Bagdatli   +1 more
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Weight in discretionary decision-making

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1999
House of Lords authority in Tesco v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] 1 WLR 759 has reinforced the well-established principle that judicial review will distinguish between relevant and irrelevant considerations pertaining to the exercise of a power, and leave the weighing of the relevant ones to the decision maker. It has also problematized
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A taxonomy for modelling discretionary decision making in the legal domain

Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law, 2005
In attempting to model how legal discretion is exercised, we have previously discussed the notion of open texture and introduced the notion of boundedness of legal domains. Through a series of case studies we have noticed that an important factor has been overlooked: namely whether the decisions made in a given domain are binary.
Uri J. Schild, John Zeleznikow
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A management view: computer security as a discretionary decision

Computers & Security, 1985
Abstract The security manager needs to have an understanding of the management view of information as a resource. There are five understandings necessary if the security manager is to be seen as a part of management rather than as a necessary evil.
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Management Changes and Discretionary Accounting Decisions

Journal of Accounting Research, 1973
A number of papers have appeared in recent years which describe empirical investigations of changes in accounting methods.1 Explanations have been offered regarding the motivations for accounting changes, such as the desire to smooth periodic income, to create ad hoc fluctuations in income, to maximize or minimize reported income and so on. In addition
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McCleskey and the Discretionary Death Decision

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
While reflecting on his fifteen-year tenure as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Lewis Powell stated that, if given the chance, he would change his vote in only one of the hundreds of cases decided during his time on the Court.
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A data envelopment analysis model with discretionary and non-discretionary factors in fuzzy environments [PDF]

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2011
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a methodology for measuring the relative efficiencies of a set of decision-making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to produce multiple outputs.
Saber Saati, Madjid Tavana, Adel Hatami-Marbini   +2 more
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Discretionary Accounting Decisions and Income Normalization

Journal of Accounting Research, 1970
The purpose of this paper is to report on another study aimed at determining whether the motive of income smoothing or income normalization can explain management's selection of accounting alternatives.1 Like Dascher and Malcom (see pages 253-59 in this issue), I designed the study to avoid some of the methodological problems discussed by Copeland.2 In
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