Dias L.C., Morton A., Quigley J. (eds.) Elicitation: The Science and Art of Structuring Judgement

Springer, 2018. — 542 p. — (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 261). — ISBN: 9783319650517, 9783319650524.This book is about elicitation: the facilitation of the quantitative expression of subjective judgement about matters of fact, interacting with subject experts, or about matters of value, interacting with decision makers or stakeholders. It offers an integrated presentation of procedures and processes that allow analysts and experts to think clearly about numbers, particularly the inputs for decision support systems and models. This presentation encompasses research originating in the communities of structured probability elicitation/calibration and multicriteria decision analysis, often unaware of each other’s developments.