Decision-making processes for intelligent agents

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to harmonize decision-making processes. The theory of decision-making is a totality of methods (mathematical, intuitive or otherwise) designed to find the best possible variants that allow to avoid exhaustive search of all alternatives. Normally the decision involves the allocation of the necessary resources and is the result of processing the information and knowledge that is achieved by a person (or a group of people), who is empowered to choose and is responsible for the quality of the solution adopted to solve a particular problem or situation. This definition highlights three elements of the selection process: the problem, which needs to be solved, the person or collective body that makes the decision, the multitude of alternatives from which the choice is made [1]. If one of these elements is missing, it is not a process of choice. The factors that influence the decisionmaking process have a wide range: from very subjective, conditioned by the competence, intuition, life experience and the degree of information of the decider, to the objective ones, such as the process model and the methods of use.