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Satisficing Games and Decision Making: With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science - Hardcover

Wynn C. Stirling

 
9780521817240: Satisficing Games and Decision Making: With Applications to Engineering and Computer Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521817242 ISBN 13: 9780521817240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

In our day-to-day lives we constantly make decisions which are simply 'good enough' rather than optimal. Most computer-based decision-making algorithms, on the other hand, doggedly seek only the optimal solution based on rigid criteria and reject any others. In this book, Professor Stirling outlines an alternative approach, using novel algorithms and techniques which can be used to find satisficing solutions. Building on traditional decision and game theory, these techniques allow decision-making systems to cope with more subtle situations where self and group interests conflict, perfect solutions can't be found and human issues need to be taken into account - in short, more closely modelling the way humans make decisions. The book will therefore be of great interest to engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians working on artificial intelligence and expert systems.

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About the Author

Wynn Stirling is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, Utah, where he teaches stochastic processes, control theory and signal processing.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521817242
ISBN 13 
9780521817240
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
268