Decision Making and Imperfection

The book is a joint effort of the top researchers from different disciplines to identify sources of imperfection and ways how to decrease discrepancies between the prescriptive theory and real-life DM. The contributions consider:

· how a crowd of imperfect decision makers outperforms experts' decisions;

· how to decrease decision makers' imperfection by reducing knowledge available;

· how to decrease imperfection via automated elicitation of DM preferences;

· a human's limited willingness to master the available decision-support tools as an additional source of imperfection;

· how the decision maker's emotional state influences the rationality; a DM support of edutainment robot based on its system of values and respecting emotions.

The book will appeal to anyone interested in the challenging topic of DM theory and its applications.