Decision Making Task
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A Decision Making Task is a cognitive task that is a decisioning task that requires alternatives identification and alternative selection by a decision maker based on their agent preferences.
- AKA: Decision Task, Decisioning Task, Decision-Making Task, Choice Task.
- Context:
- Task Input: Decision Information (such as decision data items to classify), Decision Alternatives, Decision Criteria
- Task Output: Decision, Decision Selection
- Task Performance Measure: Decision Making Performance Metrics such as decision accuracy, decision speed, and decision consistency
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- It can typically evaluate Decision Alternatives through decision making evaluation processes.
- It can typically apply Decision Criteria via decision making assessment frameworks.
- It can typically integrate Decision Factors using decision making analysis methods.
- It can typically generate Decision Outcomes through decision making selection mechanisms.
- It can typically document Decision Rationales via decision making justification systems.
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- It can often incorporate Decision Uncertainty through decision making risk assessments.
- It can often balance Decision Trade-offs using decision making optimization techniques.
- It can often leverage Decision Support Tools via decision making technology platforms.
- It can often adapt Decision Strategyes based on decision making feedback loops.
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- It can be instantiated in a Decision Making Act.
- It can range from being a Single Decision Task to being a Multiple Decision Task (such as a sequential decision-making task), depending on its decision making cardinality.
- It can range from being a Simple Decisioning Task to being a Complex Decisioning Task, depending on its decision making complexity.
- It can range from being a Offline Decisioning Task to being a Real-Time Decision Task, depending on its decision making temporal constraint.
- It can range from being a Mechanistic Decision Task to being an Agent-based Decisioning Task (such as a game), depending on its decision making agency level.
- It can range from being a Real-World Decisioning Task to being a Synthetic Decisioning Task, depending on its decision making environment type.
- It can range from being a Manual Decisioning Task to being an Automated Decisioning Task, depending on its decision making automation level.
- It can range from being a Data-Driven Decisioning Task to being a Heuristic Decisioning Task, depending on its decision making information basis.
- It can range from being a Personal Decisioning Task to being a Group Decisioning Task (such as organizational decisioning), depending on its decision making participant scope.
- It can range from being a Full-Information Decisioning Task to being a Partial-Information Decisioning Task, depending on its decision making information completeness.
- It can range from being an Explanation-based Decision Making Task (with an explanation) to being an Unexplained Decision Making Task, depending on its decision making transparency level.
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- It can be supported by a Decision Support Task.
- It can be performed by a Decision Making System (that implements a decision making algorithm).
- It can make use of a Decision Operation.
- It can require decision analysis, decision evaluation, decision selection, and decision implementation phases.
- It can involve various decision making theories such as rational choice theory, behavioral decision theory, and game theory.
- It can be influenced by cognitive biases such as confirmation bias, anchoring bias, and availability heuristic.
- It can utilize decision making tools such as decision trees, decision matrixes, and cost-benefit analysis.
- It can be critical for organizational effectiveness, strategic planning, and operational efficiency.
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- Example(s):
- Output-Based Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Simple Output Decisioning Tasks, such as:
- Complex Output Decisioning Tasks, such as:
- Domain-Specific Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Clinical Decision Support Tasks, such as:
- Business Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Legal Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Data-Driven Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Strategic Decision-Making Tasks, such as:
- Risk-Based Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Computational Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Economic Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Organizational Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Multi-Agent Decisioning Tasks, such as:
- Conscious Agent Decision-Making Tasks, such as:
- Benchmark Decision Making Tasks, such as:
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- Output-Based Decision Making Tasks, such as:
- Counter-Example(s):
- Information-Processing Task, such as analysis task, which processes information without making selection decisions.
- Online Transaction Processing Task, which executes predefined transactions without evaluating decision alternatives.
- Facilitation Task, which enables group processes without making decision selections.
- Creative Task, which generates novel solutions without selecting from existing alternatives.
- Monitoring Task, which observes system states without making decision choices.
- Data Collection Task, which gathers information without performing decision analysis.
- See: Prediction Task, Problem-Solving Task, Question-Answering System, Human Decision Making Process, Cognition, Choice, Decision Support System, Decision Theory, Management Task, Reasoning Task, Judgement Task.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making Retrieved:2021-12-29.
- In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. It could be either rational or irrational. Decision-making process is a reasoning process based on assumptions of values, preferences and beliefs of the decision-maker. Every decision-making process produces a final choice, which may or may not prompt action. Research about decision-making is also published under the label problem solving, particularly in European psychological research.
1994
- (Bechara et al., 2004) ⇒ Antoine Bechara, Antonio R. Damasio, Hanna Damasio, and Steven W. Anderson. (1994). “Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex.” In: Cognition, 50(1). doi:10.1016/0010-0277(94)90018-3
- QUOTE: Following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, humans develop a defect in real-life decision-making, which contrasts with otherwise normal intellectual functions. Currently, there is no neuropsychological probe to detect in the laboratory, and the cognitive and neural mechanisms responsible for this defect have resisted explanation. Here, using a novel task which simulates real-life decision-making in the way it factors uncertainty of premises and outcomes, as well as reward and punishment, we find that prefrontal patients, unlike controls, are oblivious to the future consequences of their actions, and seem to be guided by immediate prospects only.
1981
- (Hwang & Yoon, 1981) ⇒ Ching-Lai Hwang, and Kwangsun Yoon. (1981). “Multiple Attribute Decision Making Methods and Applications: A State-of-the-Art Survey.” In: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 186 doi:10.1007/978-3-642-48318-9