Achieving fast and accurate collective decisions with a large number of simple agents without relying on a central planning unit or on global communication is essential for developing complex collective behaviors. In this paper, we investigate the speed versus accuracy trade-off in collective decision-making in the context of a binary discrimination problem—i.e., how a swarm can collectively de...

In the decentralized control of Discrete Event Systems, a set of supervisors take enabling/disabling decisions which can be fused for deducing actual decisions. The first architecture that has been developed for decentralized control is referred to as the conjunctive architecture. Several more general architectures have subsequently been proposed. We propose a new architecture, whose basic prin...

purpose – the aim of this study is to examine relation between employees’ participation in the organizations decisions making and their psychological empowerment in iran telecommunication company subsidiary of mazanderan province. design / methodology /approach- 250 employees from the iran telecommunication company subsidiary of mazanderan province participated in this study. a spearman's cor...

decision making process requires information. accounting is the most important source of information. in 1998, the international federation of accountants issued a statement about the scope and using of accounting. it identified 4 stages for using accounting information: cost determination, planning and financial control, reduction of resources waste and creation the value. this study was desig...

IntroductIon The subject of our research aims to support in the most suitable way the collaborative decision-making process. Several scientific approaches deal with collaborative decision-making: deci-developing different analytical tools for optimal decision-making; in management sciences the observation of decision-making styles activ-For BLOCKINthe BLOCKINcollaborative BLOCKINdecision-making...

Despite increasing prominence, little is known about the cognitive processes underlying shared decision making. To investigate these processes, we conceptualize shared decision making as a form of distributed cognition. We introduce a Decision Space Model to identify physical and social influences on decision making. Using field observations and interviews, we demonstrate that patients and phys...

For many military and civilian large-scale, realworld systems of interest, data are first acquired asynchronously, i.e. at irregular intervals of time, at geographically-dispersed sites, processed utilizing decision-making algorithms, and the processed data then disseminated to other appropriate sites. The term real-world refers to systems under computer control that relate to everyday life and...

Two types of privacy-preserving decision making paradigms for utility-community interactions for multi-horizon operation are examined in this paper. In both designs, communities with renewable energy sources, distributed generators, and energy storage systems minimize their costs with limited information exchange with the utility. The utility makes decision based on the information provided fro...

In designing and implementing the Group Decision Support System (GDSS) Based on Internet, many issues should be considered such as information process, communion and cooperation, heterogeneous data transformation, intelligent management, information security, system topology, distributed model base and distributed database, partition of database and model base, system architecture, system exten...