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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- PART I: Decision-Making Challenges -- 1 Subjective Evaluations -- Thinking and Games -- Mind vs. Machine -- Learning and Remembering -- The Decision-Making Brain -- 2 Non-Generalizable...

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Key Features:First book to cover an informal history of Multiple Criteria Decision MakingCovers decade-by-decade developments in MCDM, from early history until nowContains brief biographies and pictures of major contributors in the field.

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This book presents the latest work in the area of naturalistic decision making (NDM) and its extension into the area of macrocognition. It contains 18 chapters relating research centred on the study of expertise in naturalistic settings, written by international experts in NDM and cognitive...

Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert have collected together some of the leading experts on strategy to examine how strategy is actually made by company managers across the several levels of an organization. Is strategy a coherent plan conceived at the top by a visionary leader, or is it formed...