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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Decision theory
In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting
edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and
the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to
offer a unified theory of human decision-making. Most importantly,
Redish shows how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the
decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as
irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD. Told
with verve and humor in an easily readable style, Redish makes
these difficult concepts understandable. Ranging widely from the
surprising roles of emotion, habit, and narrative in
decision-making, to the larger philosophical questions of how mind
and brain are related, what makes us human, the nature of morality,
free will, and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness, The
Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most
complex aspects of human behavior.
A business continuity management system (BCMS) is a management
framework that prepares the organization by developing business
continuity strategies to meet its business and statutory
obligations during an incident. It is about optimizing service
availability and preserving business performance to secure future
growth in the market. Business Continuity Management System offers
a complete guide to establishing a fit-for-purpose business
continuity capability in your organization. Structured in line with
the principles of ISO22301 (the International Standard for business
continuity management) and with current best practice, this
user-friendly book covers the whole life cycle of developing,
establishing, operating and evaluating a BCMS initiative. It is
aimed at new and seasoned business continuity practitioners
involved in business continuity activities in their organizations,
whatever the size and sector. It includes proven techniques and
easy-to-use methodologies that specifically support the
implementation of those requirements specified in ISO 22301.
Pragmatic approaches supported by in-depth explanations guide you
to assess and improve your organization's BCMS performance. This is
the first book to offer an end-to-end solution that addresses all
aspects of implementing an effective BCMS. Business Continuity
Management System is intended to act as a catalyst to accelerate
progress on the journey from business continuity management and
risk management to the creation and implementation of a business
continuity management system, both by enhancing the BCM and risk
competence of individual readers and by contributing to shared
knowledge in implementing ISO 22301 in organizations.
This book is for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers,
scholars, and anyone interested in scenarios, simulations, and
disaster planning. Readers are led through several different
planning scenarios that have been developed over several years
under the auspices of the US Department of Energy, the US Air
Force, and continued work at GlobalInt LLC. These scenarios present
different security challenges and their potential cascading impacts
on global systems - from the melting of glaciers in the Andes, to
hurricanes in New York and Hawaii, and on to hybrid disasters,
cyberoperations and geoengineering. The book provides a concise and
up-to-date overview of the 'lessons learned', with a focus on
innovative solutions to the world's pressing energy and
environmental security challenges.
Of all cancers, probably breast cancer is one of the most emotive. Increasingly patients with breast cancer are participating in the surgical and/or medical decision about their treatment. This involvement raises ethical issues about the rights of patients and their ability to give an informed consent, concerns about the process of communication betwen the medical staff and the patient, and also issues about the psychology of not only the woman with breast cancer, but also the doctor. This book addresses these issues relating to shared decision making and in particular those areas where a choice of treatment option involves some degree of risk/benefit analysis. It covers the ethical principles and then looks at the evidence that women who wish to participate and who are fully informed and who have taken part in the decision making process regarding their treatment, and who have a positive attitude towards their illness, tend to do better in the long run. Appropriate experts have contributed sections on the different treatment options to provide a brief overview of the treatments available and highlight the issues that should be considered by the woman and the doctor in the decision making process. There is also a section on the patients perspective and vignettes throughout to illustrate dilemmas the paitent faces and the importance of communication. Written for the surgical, medical and clinical oncologists who deal with breast cancer patients and senior nurses in breast cancer units, this book will also be of interest to trainees practising oncologists, and the women themselves who are interested in the shared decision making process in oncology generally.
Game theory explains how to make good choices when different
decision makers have conflicting interests. The classical approach
assumes that decision makers are committed to making the best
choices for themselves regardless of the effect on others, but such
an approach is less appropriate when cooperation, compromise and
negotiation are important. This book describes conditional games, a
form of game theory that accommodates multiple stakeholder
decision-making scenarios where cooperation and negotiation are
significant issues and where notions of concordant group behavior
are important. Using classical binary preference relations as a
point of departure, the book extends the concept of a preference
ordering that permits stakeholders to modulate their preferences as
functions of the preferences of others. As these conditional
preferences propagate through a group of decision makers, they
create social bonds that lead to notions of group concordance. This
book is intended for all students and researchers of decision
theory and game theory.
In Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making psychologist
and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast
and effective decision-making. A sportsman can catch a ball without
calculating its speed or distance. A group of amateurs beat the
experts at playing the stock market. A man falls for the right
woman even though she's 'wrong' on paper. All these people
succeeded by trusting their instincts - but how does it work? As
Gerd Gigerenzer explains, in an uncertain world, sometimes we have
to ignore too much information and rely on our brain's 'short cut',
or heuristic. By explaining how intuition works and analyzing the
techniques that people use to make good decisions - whether it's in
personnel selection or heart surgery - Gigerenzer will show you the
hidden intelligence of the unconscious mind. 'Fascinating and
provocative ... Gut Feelings may well be the recipe for a simpler,
less stressful life' Sunday Times 'Gigerenzer's writing is catchily
optimistic and slyly funny ... Devilish' Steven Poole, Guardian
'The science behind the phenomenon cited in the bestseller Blink
... useful and clearly written' Business Week 'Gigerenzer is
brilliant' Stephen Pinker Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Center
for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development in Berlin and former Professor of Psychology at
the University of Chicago. He has published two academic books on
heuristics, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart and Bounded
Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox as well as a popular science
book, Reckoning with Risk.
This publication examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in
the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. It
assesses the protection gap and identifies ways of strengthening
financing. CAREC member countries face growing levels of disaster
risk without sufficient financial protection. Regional cooperation
can help narrow the protection gap and increase the financing
available for quick responses to disaster events. This publication
explores the current approach to disaster risk finance in each
CAREC member state to identify opportunities to strengthen
financing arrangements. It aims to inform the design of a regional
disaster risk transfer facility.
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