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decision

[di′sizh·ən]

(computer science)

The computer operation of determining if a certain relationship exists between words in storage or registers, and taking alternative courses of action; this is effected by conditional jumps or equivalent techniques.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Decision

in law, an enactment of a soviet of people’s deputies or its executive committee, within the rights vested in it. A decision is adopted at a session of a soviet or at a session of its executive committee by a majority vote. The so-called mandatory decisions, which entail administrative responsibility if they are violated, constitute a special group.

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The only way to ascertain this is by knowing what the objective is and based on the decisions made, see if the objectives are met.

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Decision analysis is the discipline of evaluating complex alternatives in terms of values and uncertainty.

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Partly as a result of this openness, tough decisions the president has made have been well supported by the large majority of constituent groups.

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