The Third Richmond Conference centered on foundational problems in decision-making. The conference is reported in two volumes. Volume II provides the major papers themselves: Observable Components of the Decision Process and a Revised Theoretical Position, by Gordon Pask; Decision Making as an Event-Search: Traffic on a Multi-dimensional Structure by R.H. Atkin: Decision: Foundation and Practice by Brian R. Gaines; Competing Modes of Cognition and Communication in Simulated and Self-Reflective Systems by Stein Braten; On the Spontaneous Emergence of Decision Making Constraints in Communicating Hierarchical Systems, by John S. Nicolis; and also a paper by Maria Nowakowska, on a new model of decision under risk.

The Third Richmond Conference centered on foundational problems in decision-making. The conference is reported in two volumes. Volume I contains an overview of each of the major papers presented, with the author's commentary and the discussion by conference participants, plus several general discussions. Volume II (ARI Research Note 80-11) provides the major papers themselves: Observable Components of the Decision Process and a Revised Theoretical Position, by Gordon Pask; Decision Making as an Event-Search: Traffic on a Multidimensional Structure, by R.H. Atkin; Decision: Foundation and Practice, by Brian R. Gaines; Competing Modes of Cognition and Communication in Simulated and Self-Reflective Systems, by Stein Braten; On the Spontaneous Emergence of Decision Making Constraints in Communicating Hierarchical Systems by John S. Nicolis; and also a paper by Maria Nowakowska on a new model of decision under risk. (Author).