In this paper methods of mixing decision rules are investigated and applied to the so-called multiple job type … assignment problem with specialized servers which is modeled as continuous time Markov decision process. Performance optimization … the described mixing methods a suitable static decision rule is mixed with some dynamic decision rules which are easy to …

performance, together influence the decision to hold on to or to capitulate on an investment. We study the relative contribution … decision to capitulate an investment, however, only depends directly on the expectation about the stock’s future performance …. The adaptation level, by contrast, affects the actual investment decision indirectly via its impact on expectations. …

This paper is concerned with the role of committees in collective decision-makingprocesses in a world where agents must … be motivated to collect information. Committees improvethe quality of decision-making by providing information and by … preferences of the committeemembers should be aligned to those of the decision maker. Members with similar preferences asthe …

model generalizes many well known utility functions for intertemporal decision making under risk. A decision maker with a …