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decision making

vr.tr.decision-making · ACT.PRC

Let an agent handle decision making by level, method, biases, governance and records, supporting structured decisions without deciding for the user on personal, legal or medical matters.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle decision making by level, method, biases, governance and records, supporting structured decisions without deciding for the user on personal, legal or medical matters.

The cognitive and social process of selecting a course of action among alternatives, by individuals, groups or organisations, studied in psychology, economics, management and political science.

What it is for: Choosing actions under uncertainty.

It can be structure a decision with options and criteria; identify cognitive biases; choose a group decision method; record decisions and rationale.

Distinguishing features

Selection among alternatives

Individual or collective

Affected by biases

Improved by structure

What it looks like

Not physical; seen in meetings, decision logs and votes.

How it is recognised

Options, criteria and trade-offs

Decision records and minutes

Judging in competitions is a related sense

Related models

is a kind of - category

cognitive process

produces - result

decision

is studied by - field

decision theory

is supported by - tool

decision support system

In practice

Families and kinds

individual decision making

group decision making

organisational decision making

moral decision making

algorithmic decision making

Standards and regulation

Corporate governance codes

GDPR article 22 on automated decisions

ISO 31000 risk management

Failure modes and hazards

Cognitive biases

Groupthink

Opaque automated decisions

Also called

organizational decision makinggroup decision-makingminority decisioncompetition judgingFederal decreemoral decision-makingmental accountingparticipation of women in decision-makingdecision-making frameworkconclusion-makingdata-driven decision-makingcrisis decision makingdecision supportinformed decision-makingData-informed decision-makingknowledge-based decision makingMarkov decision processconsensus decision-makingMicrosoft Power BIDecision aidspilot decision makingcomputational social choicealternativeadversarial processBuying Decision ProcessConsensus-seeking decision-makingDecentralized decision makingEthical decisionnaturalistic decision-makingshared decision-makingbuyer decision processesunanimity

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Framing The decision.

Framing shapes choices.

Question

What is decided.

Question

Decision question.

  1. What exactly must be decided, and by when? definition
  2. Who has the authority to decide? provenance

Options

Alternatives.

Options

Options.

  1. Which options are available? definition
  2. Has doing nothing been considered? boundary
Evaluation Criteria.

Criteria make trade-offs explicit.

Criteria

Weights.

Criteria

Criteria.

  1. Which criteria matter, and how are they weighted? measurement
  2. What evidence supports each option? provenance

Bias

Cognitive biases.

Bias

Biases.

  1. Which biases might affect this decision? boundary
  2. How can they be reduced? action
Group Collective decisions.

Groups need methods.

Method

Voting, consensus.

Method

Group method.

  1. Which group decision method fits, such as voting or consent? action
  2. What rules apply? provenance

Record

Minutes.

Record

Decision record.

  1. How is the decision and rationale recorded? action
  2. Who is informed? action
Limits Agent role.

Some decisions are personal.

Personal

User decides.

Personal

Personal decisions.

  1. Is this a personal, legal or medical decision the user must make? boundary
  2. Which professional could help? action

Automated

Algorithms.

Automated

Automated decisions.

  1. Is the decision made automatically about a person? boundary
  2. What rights to explanation or review apply? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should decision methods be separate entries?
  • How should decision records be modelled?
  • How should automated decisions be linked?
Draft as JSON