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Emergence of a Dominant Course of Action in a General Feedback Loop When Goal Uncertainty is Present.
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Alo, Richard A.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Presents a mathematical model of a decision maker subject to goal uncertainty which shows that a dominant course of action will always emerge. The theory of multivalued functions is used to express goal uncertainty, and a specific example is described to provide insight into how the procedure works in practice. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Feedback, Information Systems, Information Utilization
External Documentation and Its Quantitative Relationship to the Internal Information State of a Decision Maker: The Information Profile.
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Yovits, M. C.; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Summarizes earlier research in the theory of information flow and its application to practical situations and to the relationship between information and the user's knowledge state. A model for creating information profiles is presented which mathematically represents changes in decision making effectiveness as a function of specific documents.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Transfer, Information Utilization, Mathematical Models