Much of the global burden of non-communicable disease is caused by unhealthy behaviours that individuals enact even when informed of their health-harming consequences. A key insight is that these behaviours are not predominantly driven by deliberative conscious decisions, but occur directly in response to environmental cues and without necessary representation of their consequences. Consequentl...

OBJECTIVE To review the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative and intuitive processes in the context of patient decision support and to discuss implications for decision aid (DA) design. METHODS Conceptual review of the strengths and weaknesses of intuitive and analytical decision making and applying these findings to the practice of DA design. RESULTS DAs combine several important goals...

This paper presents the SHOMAS multiagent system that provides guidance on leisure facilities and suggestions for shopping in malls. The multiagent architecture incorporates reactive and deliberative agents that take decisions automatically. This paper presents a deliberative agent that provides suggestions in execution time, with the help of case-based planners. This agent is described togethe...

The automated localisation of damage in structures is a challenging but critical ingredient the path towards predictive or condition-based maintenance high value structures. use acoustic emission time arrival mapping promising approach to this challenge, severely hindered by need collect dense set artificial measurements across structure, resulting lengthy and often impractical data acquisition...