Aiding the Human Decisionmaker through the Knowledge-Based Sciences

The central ideas and results, as seen by the authors, of a workshop, sponsored by the Army Research Institute. The workshop concerned aiding and understanding the human decisionmaker through the knowledge-based sciences and was held in Northern Virginia in 1985. The purpose of the workshop was to explore research issues in human decisionmaking in terms of how they might be addressed by several disciplinary areas concerned with various aspects of knowledge-based systems. The goal was to develop a research agenda that takes advantage of the commonality and differences in these areas so as to create research programs with substantially greater potential than possible if only a single discipline was involved. Such an agenda and potentially high payoff research in knowledge-based support to human information processing and judgment and choice are described.