Decision Taking versus Promise Issuing
This work provides a conceptual framework for understanding decision and promise mechanisms in software contexts, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing theories without introducing new methods or data.
The paper develops an alignment between decision-taking and promise-issuing terminologies, investigating their differences and correspondences, and connects internalized decision-taking to self-programming theory with examples in software technology settings.
An alignment is developed between the terminology of outcome oriented decision taking and a terminology for promise issuing. Differences and correspondences are investigated between the concepts of decision and promise. For decision taking, two forms are distinguished: the external outcome delivering form and internalized decision taking. Internalized decision taking is brought in connection with Marc Slors' theory of self-programming. Examples are produced for decisions and promises in four different several settings each connected with software technology: instruction sequence effectuation, informational money transfer, budget announcement, and division by zero.