Hierarchical processing by human decision-makers

✍ Scribed by D. D. Sworder; G. A. Clapp

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 211 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1098-1241
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6858(1998)1:3<228::aid-sys4>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

Many geographically distributed systems include both human decision-makers and a diverse collection of sophisticated hardware/software assets. With the unavoidable errors and distortions in data accumulation, transfer, and presentation, it is difficult to determine the appropriate human role, or even if the decision-maker is properly filling the assigned role. This paper provides an analytical model of a decision-maker performing a situation assessment task in a context requiring hierarchical processing. This model is a generalization of the Mission Directed Decision-maker Model, a simple but formal description of the cognitive dynamics of a decision-maker engaged in a task requiring situational identification in an environment containing considerable perceptual ambiguity, equivocal measurements, and sudden temporal change.