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A decision is a final product of the specific mental/cognitive process of an individual or a group of persons/organizations which is called decision making, therefore it is a subjective concept. It is a mental object and can be an opinion, a rule or a task for execution/application. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. ...

More precisely speaking, a mental object D is a decision if it was obtained by a conscious choice of only one opinion or one action (from a known set called alternatives) and it is designated for an application.

Decisions can also be made by AI computer programs and autonomous robots. That what essentially influence a decision is the set of alternatives available for a decision-maker and choice criteria applied. // Ai (as a word, proper name and acronym) can refer to many things. ... A computer program (often simply called a program) is an example of computer software that prescribes the actions (computations) that are to be carried out by a computer. ... ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ...

In different human activity domains, decision has many local meanings, for example,

• in law,
  • a decision is the outcome of a legal case
  • a per curiam decision by a court with multiple judges
  • a landmark decision is the outcome of a case which sets a legal precedent
  • a type of European Union legislation
• in statistics and economics, the attempt to make an optimal decision is called decision theory
• in boxing, a result arrived at by the judges
• in professional wrestling, a decision is a means by which a wrestler scores a point against his opponent.

See also Portal:Law The stela of King Hammurabi depicts the god Shamash revealing a code of laws to the king. ... Case law (precedential law) is the body of judge-made law and legal decisions that interprets prior case law, statutes and other legal authority -- including doctrinal writings by legal scholars such as the Corpus Juris Secundum, Halsburys Laws of England or the doctinal writings found in the Recueil Dalloz... A legal case is a dispute between opposing parties resolved by a court, or by some equivalent legal process. ... A per curiam decision (or opinion) is a ruling handed down by a court with multiple judges in which the decision was made by the court acting as a whole, as opposed to statements made by individual judges. ... A landmark decision is the outcome of a legal case (often thus referred to as a landmark case) that establishes a precedent that either substantially changes the interpretation of the law or that simply establishes new case law on a particular issue. ... Precedent, sometimes authority, is the legal principle or rule created by a court which guides judges in subsequent cases with similar issues or facts. ... A European Union decision (defined in Article 249/EC) is one of the three binding instruments provide by secondary EU legislation. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala. ... Decision theory is an interdisciplinary area of study, related to and of interest to practitioners in mathematics, statistics, economics, philosophy, management and psychology. ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo Domínguez (left) versus Rafael Ortíz Boxing, also called pugilism, prizefighting (when referring to professional boxing) or the sweet science (a common nickname among fans), is a sport in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series... Professional wrestling is generally any form of wrestling in which the wrestlers receive payment for participating. ... In the context of professional wrestling, a decision typically refers to a means in which a wrestler in an Iron Man match scores a point against his opponent. ...

Remarks

• Specially important decisions are those which have normative long-term or order/task character, and intend to influence different human communities, for example, political decisions.
• Decision-making capacity is considered as a necessary and sufficient attribute of an intelligence, see socio-cognitive engineering.
• Many decisions can be connected in decision trees.

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