| Article ID: | iaor1998554 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 71 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 3 |
| End Page Number: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1997 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Simon Herbert A. |
| Keywords: | computers: information |
Today, the improvement of organizations and the information systems in them is not a matter of making more information available, but of conserving scarce human attention so that it can focus on the information that is most important and most relevant to the decisions that have to be made. To do this, we must draw upon OR and artificial intelligence, but also on what has been learned in the past forty years of cognitive psychology about the information capabilities of human beings.