Copyright David Ullman, Camas Inc.
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Genesis of ConsensusBuilder/iDecision
•IPS (Information processing system, Herb Simon, 1972)
•Protocol studies of mechanical designers (Stauffer, 1985-88)
•IBIS (Issues, alternatives, and options, Conklin, 1980s)
•IBIS/DT(nee EDSS, Engineering Decision Support System) (Decision theoretic extension of IBIS, 1995) 
•Theory-W (Boehm, requirements negotiation, 1995)
•ConsensusBuilder (stand alone, 1998)
•iDecision (marketed by NexPrise, Summer 1999)
•Ten Steps for Robust Decision-Making, (2000)