Decision-Making Act

A Decision-Making Act is a task act of a decision making task (to select a course of action).

A Decision-Making Act is a choice act that determines a course of action or conclusion.

• AKA: Decisioning Act.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) involve Option Evaluation through choice consideration.
  • It can (typically) result in Action Selection through deliberate choice.
  • It can (typically) require Decision Resources for choice processing.
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  • It can (often) use Decision Support through judgment input.
  • It can (often) follow Decision Process through systematic evaluation.
  • It can (often) produce Decision Outcomes with varying impact.
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  • It can range from being a Human Decision-Making Act to being a Non-Human Decision Making Act, depending on its agent type.
  • It can range from being a Correct Decision-Making Act to being an Incorrect Decision-Making Act, depending on its decision accuracy.
  • It can range from being a Good Decisioning Act to being an Ineffective Decisioning Act to being a Bad Decisioning Act, depending on its decision quality.
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• Examples:
  • Agent Decision Acts (to make active choices), such as:
    • Game Decision Acts (to determine game moves), such as:
      • Player Choice Act like selecting a piece movement.
      • Strategy Selection Act like choosing a game approach.
  • Formal Decision Acts (to establish binding choices), such as:
    • Legal Decision Acts (to determine formal outcomes), such as:
      • Contract Decision Act like agreeing to formal terms.
      • Judicial Decision Act like rendering a legal judgment.
  • Management Decision Acts (to direct organizational actions), such as:
    • Executive Choice Acts (to guide business direction), such as:
      • Strategic Decision Act like selecting company strategy.
      • Operational Decision Act like determining resource allocation.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Mechanized Decision, which lacks choice deliberation.
  • Analysis Act, which focuses on information examination.
  • Advising Task, which provides decision input.
  • Random Selection, which lacks purposeful choice.
  • Automatic Response, which bypasses decision process.
• See: Conclusion, Selection Act, Decision Function, Decision Process, Indecision, Choice Making, Judgment, Decision Theory, Option Selection, Decision Quality.

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References

2020

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decision#Noun
  1. The act of deciding.
  2. A choice or judgement.
     • “The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation."

     It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.}}

     It's a tough decision, but I'll take vanilla.}}

  3. Template:Uncountable Firmness of conviction.

     After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.}}

  4. Template:Chiefly combat sports A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.

     He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.}}

  5. Template:Baseball A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.

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