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Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of " bounded rationality " and " satisficing ".
The Sciences of the Artificial (1969) [1] is a book by Herbert A. Simon in the domain of the learning sciences and artificial intelligence; it is especially influential in design theory. [2] The book is themed around how artificial phenomena ought to be categorized, discussing as to whether such phenomena belong within the domain of 'science'. [3]
Administrative Behavior: a Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization is a book written by Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001). It asserts that "decision-making is the heart of administration, and that the vocabulary of administrative theory must be derived from the logic and psychology of human choice", and it attempts to describe administrative organizations "in a way that ...
The term satisficing, a portmanteau of satisfy and suffice, [2] was introduced by Herbert A. Simon in 1956, [3] [4] although the concept was first posited in his 1947 book Administrative Behavior. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Simon used satisficing to explain the behavior of decision makers under circumstances in which an optimal solution cannot be determined.
Logic Theorist is a computer program written in 1956 by Allen Newell, Herbert A. Simon, and Cliff Shaw. [1] It was the first program deliberately engineered to perform automated reasoning, and has been described as "the first artificial intelligence program".
The concept of attention economics was first theorized by psychologist and economist Herbert A. Simon [14] when he wrote about the scarcity of attention in an information-rich world in 1971: [I]n an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes.
General Problem Solver (GPS) is a computer program created in 1957 by Herbert A. Simon, J. C. Shaw, and Allen Newell (RAND Corporation) intended to work as a universal problem solver machine. In contrast to the former Logic Theorist project, the GPS works with means–ends analysis. [1]
In applied probability theory, the Simon model is a class of stochastic models that results in a power-law distribution function. It was proposed by Herbert A. Simon [ 1 ] to account for the wide range of empirical distributions following a power-law.