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In our private life and also in our professional life we have to make decisions repeatedly. Some decisions might have very small consequences, and there are decisions and the consequences of which might have significant affects in our life. As such examples we can consider the choice of an item in our lunch and accepting or rejecting a job offer. Decision science is dealing with all kinds of decision problems, concepts, and solution methodologies.

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Matsumoto, A., Szidarovszky, F. (2016). Introduction. In: Game Theory and Its Applications. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54786-0_1

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