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Decision making, in a simple sense, means a selection among alternatives. It is one of the fundamental processes in economics but also in social systems. If these systems consist of many interacting elements — which we call agents here — the system dynamics may be described on two different levels: the microscopic level, where the decisions of the individual agents occur and the macroscopic level where a certain collective behavior can be observed.
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Schweitzer, F. (2007). Collective Decisions in Multi-Agent Systems. In: Takahashi, S., Sallach, D., Rouchier, J. (eds) Advancing Social Simulation: The First World Congress. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-73167-2_2
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