Intelligent assistance in flexible decisions

Experts are good at identifying information relevant to a decision and they know the grammar of decision making in their domain of expertise. On the other hand, their performance in apply their grammar in integrating the selected information is poor. The experts´ grammar may be translated into a formal equivalent and transferred to an artificial system. The resulting system which is described, complements human expertise in decision making. It asks for experts´ arguments in a structured format, and it applies the rules of the decision grammar to these arguments. The result is a correctly founded decision. The system is useful both to support the decisions of experts and for tutoring purposes