id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i2jr2kurn5dxjmdc7jhztknzkm John Fox Safe expert systems: simulating experts or building formal theories? 1990 4 .pdf application/pdf 2000 139 50 This issue of the Review includes two papers dealing with decision theory. based decision support systems (DSSs) have become increasingly used in fields like medicine and information may be imperfect or incomplete and even the options open to the decision maker may be Decision making is pivotal to AI generally, not just expert systems. The underlying problem, addressed in different ways by the paper on behavioural decision theory research on sound decision procedures has not been given sufficient emphasis in either AI or needed and that classical theories of how decisions under uncertainty ought to be made has a decision capabilities should be considered carefully before taking "expert knowledge" at face value. However achieving a sound hybrid of knowledge-based and decision-theoretic techniques is not all and often has been, that human decision making is irrational by comparison with formal statistical A theory of rational decision making must asknowledge these requirements. ./cache/work_i2jr2kurn5dxjmdc7jhztknzkm.pdf ./txt/work_i2jr2kurn5dxjmdc7jhztknzkm.txt