Agents can adopt additional goals through interpersonal relationships. Agents have limited resources . Without resource limitations, there would be no need for decisions. Goals vary in importance . Agents can express preferences based on ordinal goal importance.
Decisions require explanations .
The decision itself must be justified. Agents have experience . Human memory serves as the repository of human experience. Decision making, as a cognitive process, requires both remembering and learning. These points comprise the design principles for our initial decision simulation, the VOTE program.