Compressed environments: Unbounded optimizers should sometimes ignore information

Minds and Machines

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-275

  Berg, Nathan ^a   Hoffrage, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Ecological rationality; Frugality; Simplicity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; DECISION ALGORITHMS; DECISION PROCEDURE; DECISION STRATEGY; DROP-OUT; ECOLOGICAL RATIONALITY; ECONOMIC MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRUCTURE; FORMAL MODEL; FREE INFORMATION; FRUGALITY; HIGH PROBABILITY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL ACTIONS; OPTIMAL ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZERS; PROCESSING COSTS; PROCESSING POWER; REAL-WORLD; SIMPLICITY;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 77955661595     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-009-9167-1     Document Type: Article

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