| List of Tables | p. XI |
| Decision-Aiding Software and Super-Optimum Solutions | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 2 |
| File Management | p. 4 |
| Data Management | p. 5 |
| Primary and Threshold Analysis | p. 7 |
| Creating Your Own File | p. 9 |
| Pointers for the Smooth Working of the P/G% Program | p. 11 |
| Teach Yourself Super-Optimizing with P/G% | p. 13 |
| Preliminaries | p. 13 |
| Getting Started | p. 14 |
| The Main Menu | p. 14 |
| File Management | p. 15 |
| Accessing or Creating a Master File | p. 16 |
| Accessing or Creating a Data File | p. 16 |
| Designating a Prescriptive or a Predictive File | p. 17 |
| Data Management | p. 18 |
| The Alternatives | p. 18 |
| The Criteria | p. 19 |
| The Relation Scores | p. 22 |
| Adjusting the Data Management Options | p. 24 |
| The Primary Analyses | p. 25 |
| The Analysis of the Totals | p. 25 |
| The Weighted Sub-Products | p. 28 |
| The Threshold Analyses | p. 30 |
| The SOS Alternative | p. 30 |
| Bringing The Neutral, Conservative, or Liberal Alternative to the SOS Level | p. 32 |
| Improving on an SOS Solution | p. 35 |
| Converting the Computer Screens into a Composite Table | p. 36 |
| Creating SOS Data Files that Fit Your Own Subject Interests | p. 37 |
| Sources of Further SOS Information and Activities | p. 39 |
| The Predecessors of SOS Analysis | p. 39 |
| NON-SOS Multi-Criteria Decision-Making | p. 40 |
| Management Science/Operations Research | p. 41 |
| Statistical Analysis | p. 44 |
| Legalistic Verbal Analysis | p. 47 |
| Comparative Evaluation of the Five Approaches | p. 49 |
| How the SOS Software Differs from the P/G% Software | p. 50 |
| Super-Optimum Solutions in Allocation Problems | p. 53 |
| File Management and Data Management | p. 54 |
| Creating the Master File and the Data File | p. 54 |
| The Budget Categories | p. 55 |
| The Goals | p. 57 |
| Relations Between Budget Categories and Goals | p. 59 |
| The Primary Analyses and the Weighted Percentages | p. 62 |
| The Neutral Allocations | p. 62 |
| The Conservative and Liberal Allocations | p. 65 |
| SOS Allocation by Expanding the Budget | p. 67 |
| The General Method | p. 67 |
| Substantive Ideas | p. 68 |
| Decision-Aiding Software | p. 70 |
| SOS Allocation By Increasing The Relation Scores | p. 71 |
| The General Method | p. 73 |
| Decision-Aiding Software | p. 75 |
| Substantive Ideas | p. 81 |
| Some Conclusions | p. 85 |
| Handling Conflicting Constraints in Allocation Problems | p. 88 |
| Optimum Sequencing and Assigning as SOS Solutions | p. 89 |
| Multi-Criteria Dispute Resolution | p. 93 |
| The General Nature of Computer-Aided Mediation | p. 94 |
| Why Mediate Rather Than Litigate? | p. 94 |
| Why Use Computer-Aided Mediation? | p. 94 |
| What is Computer-Aided Mediation? | p. 95 |
| How Does the Software Facilitate Settlements? | p. 95 |
| How Does One Arrange for Computer-Aided Mediation? | p. 96 |
| What Are the Monetary Costs and Benefits? | p. 96 |
| Resolving Legal Policy Disputes | p. 96 |
| The Computer Program and the Disputes | p. 97 |
| Changing the Alternatives Being Considered | p. 98 |
| Changing the Criteria | p. 100 |
| Changing the Relations Between Alternatives and Criteria | p. 101 |
| Steps Or Options | p. 101 |
| Resolving Litigation Disputes | p. 102 |
| A Civil Case Study | p. 102 |
| Criminal Cases | p. 107 |
| A Principles Derived from the ADR Committee | p. 109 |
| Broader Questions And Answers | p. 112 |
| What Does the Computer Offer to those Working in Dispute Resolution? | p. 112 |
| What Obstacles Exist to the Growth in the Use of Computers in Dispute Resolution? | p. 113 |
| Is There Any Basis for the Commonly Expressed Fear that Computers Could Replace the Human Element in Negotiations and Dispute Resolution? | p. 113 |
| What Will Be the New Areas of Computer Applications in Dispute Resolution? | p. 114 |
| P/G% Applied to Mediating a Damages Dispute | p. 114 |
| An Expanded-Sum Solution to a Damages Dispute | p. 119 |
| The SOS Solution | p. 119 |
| The Expanded-Sum Solution | p. 120 |
| Some Lessons | p. 121 |
| A Generalized SOS Table for Litigation Disputes | p. 123 |
| The New Super-Optimizing Software | p. 127 |
| The Former Implicit SOS Software | p. 127 |
| General Aspects | p. 127 |
| Parts of the Former Program | p. 128 |
| The Transition to the New Software | p. 129 |
| The Forthcoming Explicit SOS Software | p. 130 |
| Preliminaries | p. 130 |
| Data Management | p. 130 |
| The Tentative Analysis | p. 130 |
| Threshold Analysis | p. 132 |
| Model Specification | p. 132 |
| Constraints | p. 133 |
| Weights | p. 133 |
| Blank Relations Screen | p. 133 |
| What's Next? | p. 134 |
| SOS Software Data | p. 137 |
| The General Nature of the Program | p. 137 |
| Basic | p. 137 |
| Basic Concepts | p. 137 |
| Checklists | p. 137 |
| Generators or Facilitators | p. 137 |
| Hurdles or Feasibility | p. 137 |
| Experimenting Space | p. 138 |
| Examples | p. 138 |
| Developmental Examples | p. 138 |
| Domestic Examples | p. 138 |
| Applications | p. 138 |
| Policy Fields | p. 138 |
| Economic | p. 138 |
| Technology | p. 138 |
| Social | p. 138 |
| Political | p. 139 |
| International | p. 139 |
| Legal | p. 139 |
| Individual Decision Making | p. 139 |
| Business | p. 139 |
| Lawyering | p. 139 |
| Doctoring | p. 139 |
| Methods other Than Choosing an Alternative | p. 139 |
| Predicting | p. 139 |
| Optimum Risk and Level | p. 139 |
| Allocating (Optimum Mix) | p. 139 |
| Optimum Time And Misc | p. 140 |
| Basic Concepts | p. 140 |
| SOS Software Appendix May 9, 2000 | p. 143 |
| Services and Products of the SOS Group | p. 185 |
| Overview of the SOS Group | p. 185 |
| Training Activities of the SOS Group | p. 185 |
| Five Types of Training | p. 185 |
| Using Microcomputers to Teach Policy Studies | p. 186 |
| Four Important Elements | p. 186 |
| Benefits and Objectives | p. 188 |
| Specific Procedures | p. 189 |
| Miscellaneous Pointers for Teaching Substance with Microcomputers | p. 191 |
| Some Conclusions | p. 192 |
| References | p. 193 |
| SOS Publications and Software | p. 195 |
| SOS Publications | p. 195 |
| SOS Creativity-Aiding Software | p. 195 |
| Spreadsheet-Based | p. 196 |
| Advantages over Unaided Thinking | p. 196 |
| Win-Win Mentions and Creativity-Aiding Software | p. 197 |
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