Die Beschäftigung mit Kybernetik, Systemdenken und Komplexitätsmanagement ist das Resultat des häufig mangelhaften Realitätsbezuges formaler Modellbildung und -analyse bei den "klassischen" Verfahren. Da die Annahmen der typischen Operations-Research-Methoden nur schwer mit den realen...

Contemporary approaches to decision making describe a decision problem by sets of states and outcomes, and a rich set of acts: functions from states to outcomes over which the decision maker (DM) has preferences. Real problems do not come so equipped. It is often unclear what the state and...

We derive a family of probabilistic choice models including the multinomial logit model, from a microeconomic model in which the decision maker has to make some effort in order to avoid mistakes when implementing any desired outcome. The disutility of this effort enters the decision maker's goal...