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Decision making processes are aimed at finding courses of action that are feasible or satisfactory in the light of multiple goals and constraints.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon
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Born: June 15, 1916
Died: February 9, 2001 (aged 84)
Bio: Herbert Alexander Simon, a Nobel Prize laureate, was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, psychologist, and computer scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science, unified by studies of decision-making.
Known for:
  1. The Sciences of the Artificial (1969)
  2. Models of My Life (1991)
  3. Reason in Human Affairs (1983)
  4. Models of Thought: Volume I (1979)
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