Tom Ritchey

Dr. Tom Ritchey is a former Research Director for the Institution for Technology Foresight and Assessment at the Swedish National Defence Research Agency in Stockholm. He has a PhD in social anthropology as well as a background in mathematics, computer science and the history of philosophy. He works primarily with non-quantified decision support modelling -- especially with General Morphological Analysis (GMA), Bayesian Networks (BN) and Multi-Criteria Decision support. Since 1995 he has directed more than 100 projects involving computer-aided GMA for Swedish government agencies, national and international NGO:s and private companies (see http://www.swemorph.com/projects.html). He is founder of the Swedish Morphological Society (http://www.swemorph.com) and Director of Ritchey Consulting LLC, Stockholm.

He is the author of the book: Wicked Problems – Social Messes: Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis, Springer (2011) and has published some 30 articles and conference papers on computer-aided morphological analysis since 2000. These include:

"Problem Structuring using Computer-Aided Morphological Analysis". Journal of the Operational Research Society (2006) 57, 792-801.(Available for download at: http://www.swemorph.com/pdf/psm-gma.pdf

"Applications of General Morphological Analysis: From Engineering Design to Policy Analysis", Acta Morphologica Generalis (AMG) Vol.4 No.1. http://www.amg.swemorph.com/pdf/amg-4-1-2015.pdf

"Outline for a Morphology of Modelling Methods: Contribution to a General Theory of Modelling". Acta Morphologica Generalis, Vol.1 No.1. (Available for download at: http://www.amg.swemorph.com/pdf/amg-1-1-2012.pdf

He is presently researching an article on "Domain Ontologies and Morphological Analysis" and is searching for a co-author who is a DO specialist.