Information presentation constraints and the adaptive decision maker hypothesis.

Information Presentation Constraints and the Adaptive Decision Maker Hypothesis

Participants examined sets of apartments described along 4 dimensions. Attribute values were manipulated to provide a way to infer strategy from response patterns. Experiment 1 established baseline behavior in unconstrained search, whereas Experiments 2-4 constrained participants to search either by alternative or by dimension. Dimensionwise presentation resulted in higher accuracy and reduced ...

The adaptive decision maker

Modeling of Decision Maker Under Imperfect Information

In real-life, imperfect information is commonly present in all the components of the decision making problem. In decision making problems a DM is almost never provided with perfect, that is ideal decision relevant information to determine states of nature, outcomes, probabilities, etc. We are known that, relevant information almost always comes imperfect. Imperfect information is information wh...

Single-photon decision maker

Decision making is critical in our daily lives and for society in general and is finding evermore practical applications in information and communication technologies. Herein, we demonstrate experimentally that single photons can be used to make decisions in uncertain, dynamically changing environments. Using a nitrogen-vacancy in a nanodiamond as a single-photon source, we demonstrate the deci...

A Fuzzy Decision Maker

One of the most useful aspects of fuzzy set theory is its ability to represent mathematically a class of decision problems called multiple objective decisions (MODs). This class of problems often involves many vague and ambiguous (and thus fuzzy) goals and constraints. The object of the fuzzy decision methodology is to obtain a decision, optimum in the sense that some set of goals is attained w...