decisionmakerwhether
Decisionmakerwhether is a coined term in decision theory that refers to the component of a decision process in which the agent decides whether to take a proposed action given uncertainty, information, and potential outcomes. It focuses on the binary question of whether to act (yes) or not to act (no), rather than on selecting among multiple actions once the decision to act is made.
Conceptually, decisionmakerwhether separates the act of considering to proceed from the selection of the specific action.
In applications, decisionmakerwhether appears in contexts such as risk assessment, strategic planning, and automated decision systems,
Critics note that, in many frameworks, whether to act is already implied by the overall decision policy,