There are few studies of how software developers make decisions in software design and none that places agile in the context of these decision making processes. In this paper, we present results of interviewing agile software developers and mentors to determine how design decision making aligns with rational decision making or naturalistic decision making. We present results of twelve case stud...

While decision making scholarship in management has specifically addressed the objectivist assumptions within the rational choice model, a similar move within business ethics has only begun to occur. Business ethics scholarship remains primarily based on rational choice assumptions. In this article, we examine the managerial decision making literature in order to illustrate equivocality within ...

A new consensus model for the consensus reaching process, in a linguistic framework, is presented in heterogeneous group decision making problems, called rational consensus model. It is guided by some linguistic consensus and linguistic consistency meaures. All the measures are calculated from a set of linguistic preference relations used to provide experts' opinions. This consensus model allow...

This paper intends to be a contribution towards an evolutionary theory of consumer. Standard economic theory assumes perfectly rational agents acting upon exogenously given preferences. Here it is proposed a bounded rational representation of consumers, which seems even more justified for consumers than for producers since they are not subject to competitive pressures and there cannot exist any...

This article examines prospects for theories and methods of preferences, both in the specific sense of the preferences of the ideal rational agents considered in economics and decision theory and in the broader interplay between reasoning and rationality considered in philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Modern applications seek to employ preferences as means for specifying, des...

The knowledge-based rational decision model (KBR-model) offers an approach to rational decision making in a non-probabilistic setting, e.g., in perfect information games with deterministic payoffs. The KBR-model uses standard game-theoretical assumptions and suggests following a strategy yielding the highest payoff which the agent can secure to the best of his knowledge. In this report, we prov...

Ellsberg (1961) designed a decision experiment where most people violated the axioms of rational choice. He asked people to bet on the outcome of certain random events with known and with unknown probabilities. They usually preferred to bet on events with known probabilities. It is shown that this behavior is reasonable and in accordance with the axioms of rational decision making if it is assu...

Risk and uncertainty are unavoidable in clinical medicine. In the case of childhood food allergy, the dysphoric experience of uncertainty is heightened by the perception of unpredictable danger to young children. Medicine has tended to respond to uncertainty with forms of rational decision making. Rationality cannot, however, resolve uncertainty and provides an insufficient account of risk. Thi...

Moral responsibility emerges in choice situations where the choice has wideranging consequences and not only the decision maker but also other parties are affected by the outcome of the choice. In this paper I will refer to such situations as complex choice situations. The purpose of this paper is to present a normative but realistic model of responsible choice. The model is normative in the se...