The society of mind
The computer and the mind
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
The mind's new science: a history of the cognitive revolution
The mind's new science: a history of the cognitive revolution
Telerobotics, automation, and human supervisory control
Telerobotics, automation, and human supervisory control
Industrial applications of model based predictive control
Automatica (Journal of IFAC) - IFAC-IEEE special issue on meeting the challenge of computer science in the industrial applications of control
Probably approximately optimal satisficing strategies
Artificial Intelligence
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.)
Discrete-time stability with perturbations: application to model predictive control
Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
Adaptive Behavior - Special issue on biologically inspired models of navigation
Action as a Fast and Frugal Heuristic
Minds and Machines
Intelligence Without Reason
Maximizing sets and fuzzy Markoff algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Simple Inference Heuristics versus Complex Decision Machines
Minds and Machines
Minds and Machines
Decision maps: A framework for multi-criteria decision support under severe uncertainty
Decision Support Systems
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In the debate between simple inference heuristics and complex decision mechanisms, we take a position squarely in the middle. A decision making process that extends to both naturalistic and novel settings should extend beyond the confines of this debate; both simple heuristics and complex mechanisms are cognitive skills adapted to and appropriate for some circumstances but not for others. Rather than ask `Which skill is better?' it is often more important to ask `When is a skill justified?' The selection and application of an appropriate cognitive skill for a particular problem has both costs and benefits, and therefore requires the resolution of a tradeoff. In revisiting satisficing, we observe that the essence of satisficing is tradeoff. Unlike heuristics, which derive their justification from empirical phenomena, and unlike optimal solutions, which derive their justification by an evaluation of alternatives, satisficing decision-making derives its justification by an evaluation of consequences. We formulate and present a satisficing decision paradigm that has its motivation in Herbert Simon's work on bounded rationality. We characterize satisficing using a cost–benefit tradeoff, and generate a decision rule applicable to both designing intelligent machines as well as describing human behavior.