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1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index. |
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Cover; Goal-Based Decision Making: An Interpersonal Model; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Goals and Decisions; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Ubiquitous Goals; 1.3 Chemistry, Music, and Goals; 1.4 Importance; 1.5 The Process of Decision Making; 1.6 Goal-Based Decision Theory; 1.7 The VOTE Program; 1.8 The Rest of the Book; Chapter 2 Overview of the VOTE Program; 2.1 What VOTE Knows; 2.1.1 ISSUES and STANCES; 2.1.2 GROUPS and RELATIONSHIPS; 2.1.3 BILLS and MEMBERS; 2.1.4 STRATEGIES; 2.2 The VOTE Algorithm; 2.3 VOTE in Action. |
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2.4 What VOTE Does Not KnowChapter 3 Goals; 3.1 Types of Goals; 3.2 Goal-Based Decision Making; 3.3 Dimensions of Goals; 3.4 Dimensions of Importance; 3.5 Comparing Goals; 3.6 Goal Conflict; 3.7 Normative Goals; Chapter 4 Resources; 4.1 Goals, Plans, and Resources; 4.2 Inferring Goals; 4.3 Types of Resources; 4.4 Dimensions of Resources; 4.5 Comparing Resources; 4.6 Normative Resources; 4.7 Goal Development and Subsumption; 4.8 Cognitive Resources; 4.9 Attention; 4.10 Memory; 4.11 Learning; 4.12 Affect; 4.13 Moods; 4.14 Resource Recapitulation; Chapter 5 Interpersonal Relations. |
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5.1 Interpersonal Behavior5.2 Adversarial and Secondary Relations; 5.3 The Persuade Package Revisited; 5.4 Attitudes and Scales; 5.5 Conversation and Stories; 5.6 Relationship Recapitulation; Chapter 6 The VOTE Program; 6.1 Roll Call Voting; 6.2 Consequences: ISSUES and BILLS; 6.3 Preferences: GROUPS and MEMBERS; 6.4 Relations: MEMBERS and GROUPS; 6.5 The VOTE Algorithm; 6.6 Summary of VOTE Decision Model; Chapter 7 Decision Strategies; 7.1 Choices and Explanations; 7.2 Popular Decision; 7.3 Not Constitutional; 7.4 Unimportant Bill; 7.5 Inconsistent Constituency; 7.6 Best for the Country. |
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7.7 Simple Consensus7.8 Minimize Adverse Effects; 7.9 Not Good Enough; 7.10 Partisan Decision; 7.11 Balance the Books; 7.12 Simple Majority; 7.13 Non-Partisan Decision; 7.14 Shifting Alliances; 7.15 Normative Decision; 7.16 Deeper Analysis; 7.17 No Decision; 7.18 Other Strategies; 7.19 Strategy Statistics; 7.20 Student Testing; Chapter 8 Related Work; 8.1 Prescriptive Models; 8.2 Descriptive Models; 8.3 Roll Call Voting Studies; 8.3.1 Predictive Models; 8.3.2 Descriptive Models; 8.3.3 AI Models of Political Reasoning; 8.4 Quantitative versus Qualitative Models; Chapter 9 Future Work. |
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9.1 Contributions9.2 Extensions to the VOTE Program; 9.3 Other Tasks and Domains; 9.3.1 Other Decision-Making Domains; 9.3.2 Planning and Resource Allocation; 9.3.3 Persuasion; 9.4 Goal Development; 9.5 Relationship Development; 9.6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix A: Natural Language Generation; A.I Subject Selection; A.2 Verb Selection; A.3 Object Selection; A.4 Generating Multiple Stances; A.5 Decision Explanations; A.6 Tailoring Explanations to an Audience; A.7 Sarcasm; A.8 French Generation; A.9 Summary; Appendix B: Inside VOTE; B.l Obtaining VOTE; B.2 tdb; B.3 ISSUES and Stances. |
| Summary |
This work presents a goal-based model of decision making in which the relative priorities of goals drive the decision process -- a psychological alternative to traditional decision analysis. Building on the work of Schank and Abelson, the author uses goals as the basis for a model of interpersonal relations which permits decisions to incorporate personal and adopted goals in a uniform manner. The theory is modelled on the VOTE computer program which simulates Congressional roll-call voting decisions. The VOTE program expands traditional decision making and simulation models by provid. |
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English. |
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Slade, Stephen. VOTE.
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VOTE (Slade, Stephen) |
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Decision making.
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Goal (Psychology)
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Interpersonal relations.
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Decision making -- Computer programs.
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Decision Making |
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Prise de décision. |
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Prise de décision -- Logiciels. |
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decision making. |
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Decision making |
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Decision making -- Computer programs |
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Goal (Psychology) |
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Interpersonal relations |
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Entscheidungsfindung |
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Intentionalität |
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Künstliche Intelligenz |
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Software |
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Slade, Stephen. Goal-based decision making. Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1994 0805813667 (DLC) 93019040 (OCoLC)168611705 |
| ISBN |
9781134779109 (electronic bk.) |
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1134779100 (electronic bk.) |
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1299695299 (ebk) |
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9781299695290 (ebk) |
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9780203773383 (e-book) |
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0203773381 (e-book) |
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1134779178 |
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9781134779178 |
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1138876410 |
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9781138876415 |
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9781134779246 (e-book ; Mobi) |
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1134779240 |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780203773383. doi |
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