Decision Making
Maximizing Expected Utility:
rigorous trade-off of risk & reward.
Targeted information gathering
same decision-theoretic analysis applies to info gathering actions.
Structure supports efficient decision making algorithms.
Probabilities
Utilities
Optimal
Decisions
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Virus
OS Corrupt
Hard Crash
File Corrupt
Read
Failure
Mouse
Dead
Reinstall OS
Utility
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