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Decision-Making

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Decision process

Definition

Decision-making is the act or process of consideration and deciding, resulting in a conclusion or resolution especially as to future action.

Decision-making arises from the need to select the best possible course of action (or a set of optimized actions) from a set of alternatives (Jain and Lim 2009). Exploration and development of alternatives are typically the integral parts of the decision-making process. Often times this is not a separate step but is intertwined in an iterative decision analysis cycle (Donndelinger et al. 2009).

Theory and Application

Of all the activities that a person might undertake during a day, it is discussable what actions are the results of decision-making. At least not all actions are subjectively perceived as the result of decision-making; actions (or inactions) that are not considered or that are an automatic response to a situation are generally not perceived to be the result of decisions. Therefore, the key...

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  1. Department of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Winnie Dankers

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  1. National Engineering School of Monastir (ENIM), University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Sami Chatti

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

  4. ITIA Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, CNR National Research Council, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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  1. University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology Laboratory of Design, Production and Management, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Eric Lutters

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Dankers, W. (2019). Decision-Making. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6446

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