Sequential Decision Making (SDM) problems optimize over the sequence of actions (or, decisions) taken to minimize underlying cumulative cost. These are referred as policy SDM. Often these comprise additional (fixed and manipulable) parameters; objective is determine optimal well manipulable parameters that minimizes SDM In this paper we address class characterized by dynamic where dynamics pre-...

Decision makers are often unable to choose between the options that they are offered. In these settings they typically defer their decision, that is, delay the decision to a later point in time or avoid the decision altogether. In this paper, we outline eight behavioral findings regarding the causes and consequences of choice deferral that cognitive theories of decision making should be able to...

Oncothermia survival studies are problematic due to the missing control arm. This is a problem is general, when the treatment targets advanced, mostly refractory, relapsed malignancies in high treatment lines, when the only way is the sequential treatment. Usually the care in high line treatment (or in terminal phase) has very limited evidence based possibilities, its medical decision-making pr...

In many everyday decisions, people quickly integrate noisy samples of information to form a preference among alternatives that offer uncertain rewards. Here, we investigated this decision process using the Flash Gambling Task (FGT), in which participants made a series of choices between a certain payoff and an uncertain alternative that produced a normal distribution of payoffs. For each choice...