Certain management decision problems are not often easily modeled using traditional decision-making frameworks. Complex management decision problems may possess characteristics that are difficult to describe fully with any single decision-making framework such as a decision tree or a network...

In this paper we present a general model that enables us to better understand the decision of a patient whether or not to participate in a treatment, and, if so, the optimal timing for the treatment, from his point of view. The model takes into account both "objective information" which...