Understanding consumer behavior is crucial for increasing the likelihood of product success. Virtual Reality head-mounted displays incorporating physiological techniques such as eye-tracking offer novel opportunities to study user in decision-making tasks. These methods reveal unconscious or undisclosed responses. Yet, research into gaze patterns during virtual evaluations remains scarce. In th...

Humans and other animals often follow the decisions made by others because these are indicative of quality possible choices, resulting in ‘social response rules’, that is, observed relationships between probability an agent will make a specific choice individuals have made. The form social responses can be understood considering behaviour rational agents seek to maximise their expected utility ...

Several recent studies hint at shared patterns in decision-making between taxonomically distant organisms, yet few studies demonstrate and dissect mechanisms of decision-making in simpler organisms. We examine decision-making in the unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum using a classical decision problem adapted from human and animal decision-making studies: the two-armed bandit problem...

INCREASING SCALABILITY IN ALGORITHMS FOR CENTRALIZED AND DECENTRALIZED PARTIALLY OBSERVABLE MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES: EFFICIENT DECISION-MAKING AND COORDINATION IN UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS

The Linear Programming Technique for Multidimensional Analysis of Preference (LINMAP) developed by Srinivasan and Shocker [V. Srinivasan, A.D. Shocker, Linear programming techniques for multidimensional analysis of preference, Psychometrika 38 (1973) 337–342] is one of the existing well-known methods for multiattribute decision making (MADM) problems. However, the LINMAP only can deal with MADM...

Effective and efficient decision-making in the Australian Army is integral to successful performance. Therefore, understanding the decision-making process is a research priority. In order to conduct such research, a summation of previous knowledge addressing the decisionmaking process and the climate within which it is embedded, is important. This report provides a theoretical platform on which...

This document reports in brief the findings of a study conducted to observe the relationship between a sense of presence and team training in decision making in dynamic high risk environments. A simple desktop virtual game environment is used to explore the possibility that, in this context, such semi immersive dynamic virtual environment (VE) could be used to achieve a sense of presence suffic...

Rapid “urbanization” (more than 50% of world’s population now resides in cities) coupled with the natural lack of coordination in usage of common resources (ex: bikes, ambulances, taxis, traffic personnel, attractions) has a detrimental effect on a wide variety of response (ex: waiting times, response time for emergency needs) and coverage metrics (ex: predictability of traffic/security patrols...

Decision-making is a cognitive process of the foremost importance to set a line of action under change; it is said to be a psychological construct, being therefore latent and not directly observable. Indeed, issues of construct validity are paramount, where the information gathered would provide insight regarding the construct of emotional intelligence and how one would attempt to clarify its m...