Rational decision making; the role of physician

Exploring the Role of Emotions in Rational Decision Making

Our focus in this paper is to explore how emotional factors can complement rationality in decision making. Our approach is to develop a model of the situation and use this model to generate arguments for and against the actions that an agent can perform. Actions are then chosen by evaluating this set of arguments according to the subjective preferences and emotional state of the agent concerned...

The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making 1 The Ethical Dangers of Rational Decision Making

Rational Decision Making

RATIONAL DECISION MAKING: Choosing among alternatives in a way that “properly” accords with the preferences and beliefs of an individual decision maker or those of a group making a joint decision; in particular, the subject as developed in decision theory [16] (see RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY), decision analysis [24], GAME THEORY [33], political theory [20], psychology [14] (see DECISION MAKING), an...

Distributed Rational Decision Making

Automated negotiation systems with self interested agents are becoming increas ingly important One reason for this is the technology push of a growing standardized communication infrastructure Internet WWW NII EDI KQML FIPA Concor dia Voyager Odyssey Telescript Java etc over which separately designed agents belonging to di erent organizations can interact in an open environment in real time and...

The role of intuition in managerial decision-making: Islamic approach

Current theories argue that decision making is largely based on quick and intuitive processes.The results of study on topping organizations show that successful decision-makings are intuitive rather than rational. Therefore in recent years the issue of intuition and intuitive decision making as an effective management has attracted increasing attention in scientific circles and world-class rese...