Decisions in both domains involve an abundance of goals, limited resources, goal adoption through interpersonal relationships, past cases and experience, and the need to explain decisions. A sample decision problem for the new program would be deciding what PC to purchase, and providing a justification for the choice. Adapting the program to such business problems requires a number of changes. We have identified the following extensions to make VOTE better suited to business decisions. Non-Binary choices .
Decisions can involve fewer or more than two options.
The program should permit an arbitrary number of choices. For example, in purchasing a PC, a buyer may consider a dozen or more options. Multi-choice decisions can be reduced to a series of binary choices, but we are implementing more general and cognitively appropriate strategies. No Bills, just Options . Rather than represent choices as discrete bills, a choice can be any combination of options.