Decision Theory and Choices: a Complexity Approach

General Issues -- Coherence, Complexity and Creativity: the Dynamics of Decision Making -- Complexity Theoretic Bounded Rationality and Satisficing -- Optimisation and “Thoughtful Conjecturing” as Principles of Analytical Guidance in Social Decision Making -- Agent Based Models -- A New Agent-based Tool to Build Artificial Worlds -- Exploration Modes and Its Impact on Industry Profitability -- Financial Fragility and Interacting Units: an Exercise -- Techniques and Tools -- Using Homogeneous Groupings in Portfolio Management -- Elman Nets for Credit Risk Assessment -- Modeling from Physics -- From Chemical Kinetics to Models of Acquisition of Information: On the Importance of the Rate of Acquisition of Information -- Thermodynamic-like Approach to Complexity of the Financial Market (in the Light of the Present Financial Crises) -- A Physicist’s Approach to Phase Controlling Chaotic Economic Models -- Related Issues -- A Note on Complaints and Deprivation -- Predictability of SOC Systems. Technological Extreme Events -- Ontology Based Risk Management.