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As decision theorists have succeeded in extending their analyses into new domains, and have aspired to new levels of both realism and rigor, they have attempted to apply the rationality postulate to more and more complicated decision problems. In particular, decision theorists have become more concerned with the complexities associated with time, uncertainty, and interpersonal conflict and cooperation; and advances in mathematical theories of optimization, statistical decision-making, and games have provided new concepts and tools for the study of rational behavior in the face of such complexities.
1 This paper is based on research supported by the National Science Foundation, USA.
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Radner, R. (1975). Satisficing. In: Marchuk, G.I. (eds) Optimization Techniques IFIP Technical Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38527-2_34
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