A domain specific language for complex dynamic decision making

Effective decision making of organisation requires deep understanding of various organisational aspects such as its goals, structure, business-as-usual operational processes in the context of dynamic, socio-technical and uncertain business envi-ronment. Decision making approaches adopt a range of modelling and analysis techniques for effective decision making. The current state-of-practice of deci-sion-making typically relies heavily on human experts using intuition aided by ad-hoc representation of an organisation. Existing technologies for decision mak-ing are not able to represent all constructs that are needed for effective decision making nor do they comprehensively address the analysis needs. This paper pro-poses a meta-model to represent organisation and decision artifacts in a compre-hensive, relatable and analysable form that serves as a basis for a domain specific language (DSL) for complex dynamic decision making. The efficacy of the pro-posed meta-model as regards specification and analysis is evaluated using a real-life scenario.

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