One key feature is that the "decision" process is split into three distinct steps: information gathering, judgement formation, and action. Notably, any agent's judgement about a best Decision making has always been a potentially complex action is not necessarily the same as the action taken, since problem, and arguably never more so when there are many (e.g.) the preferred action might be altered - or even overridden competing decision types to be made, when they apply to different - by the judgements of higher level agents. The other scopes and arenas, when outcomes may be uncertain, key feature is that agents share only their judgements, and not and when there are many actors - with different levels of authority their observations about the world, or their actions.