Q.3. Frank Wesley, project manager for the LOGON project, is concerned about

the development time for the robotic transporter. Although the subcontractor,

Creative Robotics, has promised a delivery time of 6 weeks, Frank knows

that the actual delivery time will be a function of the number of other projects

Creative Robotics is working on. As an incentive to speed up delivery of the

transporter, Frank has three options:

S1: Do nothing

S2: Promise Creative Robotics a future contract with Iron Butterfly

S3: Threaten to never contract with Creative Robotics again.

He estimates the impact of these actions on delivery time would be as follows:

Payoffs: Creative Robotics Workload

Strategy Slow Average Busy

S1 4 6 8

S2 3 4 7

S3 3 6 6

What strategy should Frank adopt based upon uncertainty criteria? Use criteria

similar to the maximax, maximin, minimax regret, and maximum expected payoff,

except note that the criteria must be adapted because here the goal is to minimize

the payoff (time); this is in contrast to the usual case, which is to maximize

the payoff.