Article ID: | iaor20043702 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 104 |
End Page Number: | 118 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
Journal: | Expert Systems |
Authors: | Wang H., Chu P.-C. |
Choice problems as a class of decision problems have attracted great attention for the last couple of decades. Among the frameworks and supporting theories used in their study, two have had the greatest impact: bounded rationality and cost–benefit. Both theories could find support from past empirical studies under different conditions or problem environments. In the past studies, problem size has been shown to play an important role in decision-making. As problem size increases, a decision process may be detoured and the decision outcome may be different. In this paper we investigate the impact of problem size on three important aspects of the computer-aided decision process – strategy selection, decision time/effort, and decision quality – through very large choice problems.