In this paper I analyze the e¤ect of the transparency of the decision making process in committees on the decisions that are eventually taken. I focus on committees whose members are motivated by career concerns, so that each member tries to enhance his own reputation. When the decision making process is secretive, the individual votes of the committee members are not exposed to the public but ...

What a delight to celebrate the achievements of Peter Gärdenfors! His monumental book, Knowledge in Flux, gives new direction to epistemology. His judicious collection of readings, compiled with Nils-Eric Sahlin, Decision, Probability, and Utility, is a standard text for many courses on decision theory. These are just two items from a long list of impressive contributions to philosophy. To high...

Infiltration and inflow (I/I) to wastewater systems cause e.g., flooding, pollution, the unnecessary use of limited resources in society. Due climate change an increased need for renewal piping systems, making right decisions on how handle I/I is more important than ever. This paper presents a novel framework risk-based decision support based established theories risk assessment decision-making...

ed information set of each scientist (i.e., information about how many of each type of experiment each scientist has done), while they take as random the actual realizations of these random variables. So these probabilities reflect the assessment that a third-party observer would make before any connections are formed, knowing the experiments that each scientist has done, but not the outcomes o...

The development of a data warehouse has been traditionally guided by an in-depth analysis of the underlying operational data sources, thus overlooking an explicit development phase in which information requirements of decision makers are addressed. This scenario has prompted that the deployed data warehouse often fails in delivering the expected support of the decision making process. To overco...

Decision making requires reference to both actual and remote information in the context of the requirements of the animal. Here, I explore a cognitive approach to decision making in honeybees and ask the question whether flies may share the faculties observed in bees. Examples are drawn primarily from natural behavior in bees, particularly from navigation and communication. I conclude that stud...