Improving Support of Appropriate Executive Decisions by Combining Artificial Immune Systems and Fuzzy Logic

This paper presents a novel approach to support appropriateness of executive decisions by using combined principles of Artificial Immune System (AIS) and Fuzzy Logic (FL). The main goal is to show that more Appropriate Executive Decisions (AED) may be obtained if strategic decision makers are equipped with supportive tools based on AIS and FL (Fuzzy-AED). In addition, this work aims at improving the quality of the system response by adding new features to the original version of the AED model. A proof of concept for Fuzzy-AED is also included here along with experiments carried out within a real business environment. Experimental results suggest that this hybrid approach to executive decision making could be used to assemble helpful executive decision systems that may be easily deployed to reduce some of the risks inherent in strategic decision making.