1 Introduction

Abstract

Human thinking and in particular our capacity to make decisions has long interested scientists from many disciplines: philosophy, medicine, psychology, mathematics, and engineering, among others. Philosophers are interested in the motivations and the implications of decisions, physicians and psychologists in the different mechanisms leading to them, and mathematicians and engineers in obtaining a model that permits the reproduction of this capacity. The central aim of this research is to propose a methodology to attain this latter goal: modeling and reproducing human decision making processes.