ABSTRACT

Dynamic Decision Making is characterized by multiple and interdependent decisions, autonomous environments, and real-time evaluation and action. Decision makers in dynamic environments recognize typical situations and typical responses and use their knowledge to adapt their strategies “on the fly”. Traditionally, cognitive models are developed within the context of a task. A synthetic version of the task exists in the form of a computer program, and a cognitive model is developed to interact with such a tool. Creating cognitive models to perceive a situation, combine goals and beliefs, choose a course of action, and react over the environment, is a challenge that we should overcome. Water purification plant is highly dynamic because of exogenous events occurring without the decision maker’s control and it is complex because of the number of options and alternatives to consider at any given time.