Professor Ernest Forman
Department of Decision Science
School of Business
The George Washington University
E-Mail: forman@gwu.edu
Experience and Interests
Ernest Forman is a Professor of Decision
Sciences at George Washington University's School of Business.
He has extensive experience with executive decision-making
methodologies, resource allocation, project portfolio management,
operations management and statistics.
He received one of the first
United States patents issued for computer
software and designed Expert Choice, a computerized implementation
of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, which is now used extensively
throughout the United States
as well as in Canada,
South and Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and the
Far East.
Applications include a wide range of government and business
decisions involving tradeoffs among conflicting objectives, some
quantitative, some qualitative.
Examples of such problems include government policy,
allocation of R&D funds, cost/benefit analysis, employee evaluation,
setting corporate priorities, group decision-making, conflict
resolution and strategic planning.
Dr. Forman's expertise is widely recognized and he is
frequently consulted by organizations such as IBM, MERCK, John
Deere, Ford, AOL, NIST, Boeing, GAO, IRS, NASA, CIA,
DoD, state, and local governments.
Dr. Forman holds six U.S. Patents related to decision-making and is
co-founder of Expert Choice Inc. In
addition to developing Expert Choice, Dr. Forman is the creator of
four other commercial software products, Team Expert Choice, The
Accountant, The Business Accountant, and
Stratatree. He has conducted national and international
seminars on decision support, group decision-making, resource
allocation, data base management, distributed processing, and
forecasting.
Dr. Forman has authored
Decision by Objectives, and has co-authored
An Analytic Framework for
Marketing Decisions,
The
Hierarchon - A Dictionary of Hierarchies, and
Advances in Telematics.
He is engaged in research, development and writing about the
theory of measurement, evaluation and choice; corporate and public
sector applications of decision analysis; strategic planning;
resource allocation; conflict resolution
and project portfolio management.
Prior to joining the faculty of George
Washington University, Dr. Forman was a member of the technical
staff of the MITRE Corporation, where he conducted seminal research
and development of a distributed data base system and evaluated
remote utilization of a variety of unique computer resources on the
experimental ARPA computer network (forerunner of the INTERNET).
Other research areas at
MITRE included computer performance evaluation, computer security,
source data automation, and data base management systems.
Dr. Forman was a Lieutenant in the United
States Navy and was selected by Admiral Rickover to serve at the
U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School, where he taught mathematics and
electrical engineering.
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in electrical
engineering from the
University of Rochester,
Master of Science in Management Science
from Johns Hopkins University, Doctor of Science in Operations
Research from The George Washington University.
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