Resource-Allocation Behavior

✍ Scribed by Harvey J. Langholtz, Antoinette T. Marty, Christopher T. Ball, Eric C. Nolan (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Despite the increasing necessity for information on allocating dwindling resources, resource-allocation behavior is not nearly so well understood as choice behavior (selection from two or more already defined alternatives, events, or lotteries.)

Although there have been scores of books devoted to the optimal model for making resource-allocation decisions there has never been a book discussing the cognitive aspects of this behavior.

This book answers the question of how people make such decisions while explaining how Linear Programming can be applied within the context of resource-allocation. It also takes the reader step-by-step into several types of problems under varying conditions, including harsh and benign environments, maximization and minimization, multi-dimensional, and cyclical problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
An Introduction to Resource-Allocation Behavior....Pages 1-8
The Optimal Model: Linear Programming....Pages 9-17
RAB with Time, Three Dimensions, and Minimums....Pages 19-29
Previous Research....Pages 31-36
RAB with Various Levels of Information....Pages 37-61
RAB in Harsh and Benign Environments....Pages 63-87
RAB when Gains and Losses are Possible....Pages 89-106
RAB when the Objective Function Changes....Pages 107-143
RAB in Commonplace but Complex Tasks....Pages 145-177
Cognitive Strategies for RAB....Pages 179-200
Distributive Justice in Resource-Allocation....Pages 201-234
Conclusions and Future Areas to be Mapped....Pages 235-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-245

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Personality and Social Psychology

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