Part 1 Governmental decisions: choosing among alternative facility locations, R.E. Martin and R. Eric Greene; least cost utility planning, T. Stanton; evaluating juvenile offender programs, A.R. Roberts and P. Schervish; a microcomputer evaluation of a community's revolving loan fund, G. Beck. Part 2 Personal decisions: decision making for ordinary people, M. Becker; making health care decisions, M.K. Mills. Part 3 Legal decisions: decision-aiding software and private law practice, F. Magee and J. Finan; computer-aided law decisions, S.S. Nagel; computer-aided mediation in federal court, J.W. Cooley. Part 4 Teaching and improving decision analysis: policy/goal percentaging for teaching, L. Faulk; combining graphics and algebraic sensitivity analysis, C.E. Teasley; decision-aiding algorithms, T. Stanton; comparing multi-criteria decision making programs, B. Radcliff. Part 5 Cross-national decision making: policy evaluation methods for developing country energy issues, M. Quebral; hospital location in Yugoslavia, I. Grdesic. Part 6 Private sector decision making: decision making in non-profit human service agencies, W. Stevens; buying players for a baseball team, K. Sias. Part 7 Political decision making: computer-aided media strategies in local election campaigns, C.E. Teasley.

Decision-aiding software is applied in this book to government, personal decisions, law, teaching, decision-analysis research, cross-national decision-making, business and politics.