PROCEDURALLY RATIONAL DECISION-MAKING AND CONTROL

Substantive rationality requires a decision-maker to be a utility maxi mizer; under this paradigm, the decision is paramount, and not depende nt on the computational process used to obtain it. Procedural rational ity is dependent on the method used to make the decision; reasonablene ss of the procedure is paramount. Well-formed problems are amenable to substantive rationality; ill-formed problems are not, but are amenabl e to procedural rationality. To qualify as being procedurally rational , a methodology must possess a sound epistemological basis, it must be amenable to a formal design synthesis procedure, and it must be consi stent with substantive rationality. Epistemic utility theory forms the basis of a decision rule that is procedurally rational. This theory a dapts to decision-making in the context of control theory, and leads t o a specific design procedure that may be applied to single- and multi ple-agent ill-formed control problems.