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  • Satisficing Games and Decision Making: With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science

    Satisficing Games and Decision Making by Stirling, Wynn C.;

    With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science

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      • Publisher's listprice GBP 90.00
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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 3 July 2003

    • ISBN 9780521817240
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages268 pages
    • Size 255x180x20 mm
    • Weight 630 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 b/w illus.
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    Short description:

    An alternative approach to mathematical decision making for AI and expert systems engineers and scientists.

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    Long description:

    In our day-to-day lives we constantly make decisions which are simply 'good enough' rather than optimal. Most computer-based decision-making algorithms, on the other hand, doggedly seek only the optimal solution based on rigid criteria and reject any others. In this book, Professor Stirling outlines an alternative approach, using novel algorithms and techniques which can be used to find satisficing solutions. Building on traditional decision and game theory, these techniques allow decision-making systems to cope with more subtle situations where self and group interests conflict, perfect solutions can't be found and human issues need to be taken into account - in short, more closely modelling the way humans make decisions. The book will therefore be of great interest to engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians working on artificial intelligence and expert systems.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Rationality; 2. Locality; 3. Praxeology; 4. Equanimity; 5. Uncertainty; 6. Community; 7. Congruency; 8. Complexity; 9. Meliority; Appendix A: bounded rationality; Appendix B: game theory basics; Appendix C: probability theory basics; Appendix D: a logical basis for praxeic reasoning; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.

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