"Extracting and Leveraging Value from a Decision Interdependency Networ" by Simon Pulawski, Helena Ibro et al.
The choices we make constrain other choices. Certain combinations of decisions lead to better outcomes than other combinations of decisions. These observations hold in a large class of problem domains, but are especially compelling in policing and law enforcement. However, the problem of identifying the optimal choices has received relatively little attention in the literature. The nearest point of departure is the class of Distributed Constraint Optimisation Problems (DCOP), but these offer a limited vocabulary for describing the final outcome (we are only able to assess the value of a shared...