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Theories for Distributed Decision Making
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... communication system, wherein everyone has access to every message as a way to ensure that distributed decision makers have a shared mental model of the system's overall status. In addition to worrying about the psychological impact of that policy on what information operators will choose to share (knowing that everyone is listeriing)
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... Whether it is a Neolithic hunting park or a couple working out of a common checking account or raising children together, people must coordinate their actions. Their techniques for doing so include sharing information, jointly creating contingency plans, and directly communicating instructions.
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... Without it one risks, as suggested earlier, elegant mathematical models of systems operation based on overly simple assumptions about human behavior, as well as designs based on behavioral principles that are sensible locally but have unimagined side effects when embedded in a complete operating system. A minimal approach to breaching these barriers is making the different relevant theories generally accessible.
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... that was circulated to participants prior to the workshop adopted one approach to that goal. It begins by describing briefly the general research paradigm, assumptions, and results of behavioral decision theory (which studies intuitive processes of judgment and decision making with something of an emphasis on when they produce suboptimal performance of the sort that might be ameliorated by training or decision aids)
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