An Actual Application of Collective Choice Theory to the Selection of Trajectories for the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project

James S. Dyer and Ralph F. Miles
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James S. Dyer: University of California, Los Angeles, California
Ralph F. Miles: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Operations Research, 1976, vol. 24, issue 2, 220-244

Abstract: This paper describes the use of decision analysis to facilitate a group decision-making problem in the selection of trajectories for the two spacecraft of the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Project. This NASA project includes the participation of some eighty scientists, divided by specialization among eleven science teams. A set of thirty-two candidate trajectory pairs was developed by the Project, in collaboration with the science teams. Each science team then ordinally ranked and assigned cardinal utility function values to the trajectory pairs. The scientists used these data and statistics derived from collective choice rules in selecting the preferred trajectory pair.

Date: 1976
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