We propose a method to allocate decision responsibility and arrange information flow dynamically within a team of decision-makers for command and control. A model of decision making which relates the decision load to decision accuracy is proposed and employed as an atomic building block to create predictive models of team decision making. An optimization problem is then proposed for a given set...

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) model in cancer care was introduced and endorsed to ensure that care delivery is consistent with the best available evidence. Over the last few years, regular MDT meetings have become a standard practice in oncology and gained the status of the key decision-making forum for patient management. Despite the fact that cancer MDT meetings are well accepted by clinicians...

This paper provides a critical review of social contextual and group biases that are relevant to team decision-making in command and control situations. Motivated by the insufficient level of attention this area has received, the purpose of the paper is to provide an insight into the potential that these types of biases have to affect the decision-making of such teams. The biases considered are...

Traditional research of decision-making has not significantly contributed towards better understanding of professional judgment and decisions in practice. Researchers dealing with decisionmaking in various professions and natural settings initiated new perspectives called naturalistic, which put the expert in the focus of research and the expertise thus entered the core of decision-making resea...

Purpose Technology-based services (TBS) create substantial value for providers and customers alike. Increasingly short life cycles and high innovation failure rates have turned superior innovation competences into a fundamental source of sustainable competitive advantage. In TBS innovation projects, decision-making in pre-development stages (e.g., in the screening or innovation proposal evaluat...

In this description document, we outline the main ideas behind our entry to the RoboCup 2011 2D Soccer Simulation League competition. This simulated soccer team, EdInferno.2D, represents our debut in this league. The major research issue that drives our effort is that of cooperative sequential decision making and online learning in environments that continually change. We outline a framework fo...

Background This study identified multiple socio-professional and team effectiveness variables, based on the Input-Mediator-Output-Input (IMOI) model, and tested their associations with job satisfaction for three categories of mental health professionals (nurses, psychologists/psychotherapists, and social workers). Methods Job satisfaction was assessed with the Job Satisfaction Survey. Indepen...

Selection of players for a cricket team within a finite budget is a complex task which can be viewed as a constrained multi-objective optimization and a multiple criteria decision making problem. In cricket team formation, batting strength and bowling strength of a team are the major factors affecting its performance and an optimum trade-off needs to be reached in the formation of a good and su...

At RoboCup, teams of autonomous robots or software softbots compete in simulated soccer matches to demonstrate cooperative robotics techniques in a very difficult, real-time, noisy environment. At the IJCAI/RoboCup97 softbot competition, all entries but ours used human-crafted cooperative decision-making behaviors. We instead entered a softbot team whose high-level decision making behaviors had...