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Smith, J. Q. and Dodd, L. (2012) Regulating autonomous agents facing conflicting objectives : a command and control example. Decision Analysis, Volume 9 (Number 2). pp. 165-171. doi:10.1287/deca.1120.0240 ISSN 1545-8490.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/deca.1120.0240
Abstract
Military commanders in the United Kingdom have a degree of devolved decision authority delegated from command and control (C2) regulators and are trained and expected to act rationally and accountably. Recent experimental results suggest that experienced commanders usually appear to act as if they are subjective expected utility maximizers. The only scenarios where this appears not to be so are when the immediate mission objectives conflict with broader campaign objectives. Then the apparent rationality of even experienced commanders often evaporates, in this paper we show that if the C2 regulator assumes her commander is expected utility maximizing and that he uses a suitable multiattribute utility function, then even when she is remote from the field of action and her information is sparse, this regulator can nevertheless predict when scenarios might lead her commanders into making irrational decisions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Decision Analysis | ||||
Publisher: | Informs | ||||
ISSN: | 1545-8490 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 9 | ||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 165-171 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1287/deca.1120.0240 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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