AUTHOR=Khaluf Yara , Simoens Pieter , Hamann Heiko 

TITLE=The Neglected Pieces of Designing Collective Decision-Making Processes

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Robotics and AI

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2019.00016

DOI=10.3389/frobt.2019.00016

ISSN=2296-9144

ABSTRACT=<p>Autonomous decision-making is a fundamental requirement for the intelligent behavior of individual agents and systems. For artificial systems, one of the key design prerequisites is providing the system with the ability to make proper decisions. Current literature on collective artificial systems designs decision-making mechanisms inspired mostly by the successful natural systems. Nevertheless, most of the approaches focus on voting mechanisms and miss other fundamental aspects. In this paper, we aim to draw attention to the missed pieces for the design of efficient collective decision-making, mainly information processes in its two types of stimuli and options set.</p>