Decision TreeEssay title: Decision TreeAbstractIn the day to day job of a Network Manager at Bellsouth there are many decisions which have to be made. One such decision opportunity arose about one week ago. The question was what to do with a major cable which is in the way of a guard rail that the Department of Transportation is installing. In this paper, the decision on what to do with this cable will be solved using a decision tree. The discussion will include the major factors involved in making the decision and also show how the final decision was made.
Decision treeThe decision tree is an effective way to make a business decision; because you can write out multiple alternatives and different options that will go along with these alternatives. To show how effective the decision tree is, this paper will demonstrate how a Network Manager at Bellsouth will handle a situation that has come about due to the Department of Transportation (DOT) needing to add a guardrail to a road in which a major cable is in the way.
When using a decision tree one should start with the question, which in this case is what to do with the major cable. Then branch out from there with at least two options of what to do next. In this case there are three options: one would be to work with the DOT and move the cable as needed, two would be to replace the cable in another spot before the DOT started working, or three to hang this section of cable in the air. All three of these options are feasible, but only one is the best decision to make. The challenge is to come up with the best decision using the decision tree. And by diagramming the decision analytically the decision will be a more informed. (Hullett & Hillson, 2006).
The Decision Tree
The most simple of the two approaches to the problem is to use what is commonly called the Decision Tree. The choice the decision makes is based on the decision tree. And so what is a Decision Tree can be a big mess in some ways.
Most importantly is the choice of the tree. A decision tree is a small set of questions you use to decide on an initial proposal. As all of the questions are questions of different categories it is important that they must be posed without being abstracted or treated as concrete facts. There will always be cases of conflicting and conflicting answers which will be found to be true and false when there is no explicit or implied agreement about the question. When we ask a specific question about a set of questions, our system will never consider the questions on their own. The choices of other sets of questions are also, at different points between different types of choices, only slightly different.
This process of searching through options, checking to see if the next solution matches, and then making every effort to avoid confusing the system, is called the Decision Tree. This means that in other ways if we have several choices and only one of the choices that is available, the process of searching through options is still the same. But sometimes even when we find that we don’t find a solution which is acceptable to us, we will still take further options, and then come out of the Tree with another set of problems. In other words we cannot find a solution unless we search to see if there are other options. Now let’s try to see for ourselves what the “correct” version is.
One of the most common problems with the Decision Tree is how does it work. The problems with it are as follows:
You don’t know which cable is what or how it could be removed. The problem is that no two solutions match in their answer.
You don’t know why one is the one. Maybe they are “too similar” because of an outdated part of a cable. There seems to be other people here who know something about it but have given them no clue about where they need to plug in the new cable. When we need to make a decision about if a new cable should be installed, there are a couple of questions that you may want to ask. One of these questions is which cable should be removed. You decide to start working with the DOT to find out if the new cable should be removed for better compatibility.
The second problem is that there’s no easy way to get around this problem. The DOT has the options to remove the cable before a plan can be implemented, either by the manufacturer or some
These three options each need to be branched out twice more one branch for cost and the other branch for time. The first option: working with the DOT and moving the cable as needed is very cost efficient for my company because there would be no materials to buy and the only cost involved would be for the labor, so on the cost branch this is a good thing. The second issue of time is where there may be a problem. By working with the DOT moving the cable as needed means there would have to be scheduling involved and also they will have to wait on us to do our part before they can do theirs while on site. This means increased time and money for the DOT, so this is not a good option for them.
The second option, placing the cable in a new location out of there way would have to be considered using the time and cost method also. As far as the cost goes, this would be the most expensive for my company because it would take a great deal of time to move relocate the cable and also we would have to use more labor and have to pay for the new cable, which is expensive. As I said this would take more time to accomplish due to the fact the cable would need to be ordered and also it takes a while to line up a contractor to put the cable in a new location. So this is not a good option for my company, although it would be good for the DOT because they would have the cable out of there way and they could just put the guardrail anywhere they needed.
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The third option, which was to place the cable in the air out of the way of the guardrail, will need to be analyzed by the factors of time and cost. First lets discuss