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Decision-making

Decision-making is the cognitive and computational process of selecting a course of action from alternatives by weighing evidence, criteria, constraints, and anticipated outcomes. It encompasses human judgment shaped by information, values, and bias, as well as formal and algorithmic approaches that structure choice…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 13× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Decision-making is the cognitive and computational process of selecting a course of action from alternatives by weighing evidence, criteria, constraints, and anticipated outcomes. It encompasses human judgment shaped by information, values, and bias, as well as formal and algorithmic approaches that structure choices using data, multiple criteria, optimization, and probabilistic reasoning to improve consistency and efficiency. Decision-making spans individual, clinical, organizational, and policy levels, and is increasingly supported by data-driven models and artificial-intelligence methods that classify, prioritize, and predict. Research in this area examines decision strategies across domains, including municipal decision-making to combat waterborne disease, surgical decision-making and technique selection, and data-driven decision-making to manage pandemic transmission risk while limiting economic harm. Studies address the classification and prioritization of tasks in public administration, the role of impulsivity and attention-related traits in financial risk and investment outcomes, and health-impact-assessment practice. Social and behavioural dimensions are recurring themes, including household autonomy and gender disparities in decision-making, women's roles in environmental conservation, and student motivation, alongside conceptual work linking biological information processing to artificial-intelligence-inspired decision frameworks. By integrating cognitive, statistical, and computational perspectives, the field clarifies how decisions are made and improved. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to decision-making, decision-support methods, and their applications across scientific, clinical, and social settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

Six Fractal Codes of Biological Life Unifying ATOMS, WAVES and INFORMATION: Perspectives in Exobiology, Cancers Basic Research and Artificial Intelligence Biomimetism Decisions Making

Perez Jean-claudeCorresponding author
Phd Maths Computer Science Bordeaux University, RETIRED Interdisciplinary Researcher (IBM Emeritus, IBM European Research Center On Artificial Intelligence Montpellier) Bordeaux Metropole, France.
Exact topic Medical Informatics and Decision Making Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-21-3900

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 13 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Applied Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Journal editorial board
Simon X. Yang · Canada Pasi Luukka · Finland Basil Mohammed Al-Hadithi · Spain

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