At a higher level, it acts as an independent processor of decision-makers' judgments thereby giving a result that is in accordance with pre-chosen criteria.
It was only last spring that Apple said it would stop using I.B.M. processors, a decision that shook up the semiconductor industry.
That patent, No. 6,012,051, was granted for a "consumer profiling system with analytic decision processor" that lets customers "make the best choice according to his or her own personal profile".
Commodity processors make subsequent decisions using more detailed information from all of the detectors in more sophisticated algorithms that eventually approach the final reconstruction.
Decision Diagram Machines (DDMs) are special purpose processors that evaluate decision diagrams.
"Given the current economics of the U.S. beef industry, domestic processors must make difficult decisions to protect their operations," John Simons, the chief executive, said in the statement.
But the Web site called LowEndMac, which describes and posts rankings of older Macintoshes for collectors and die-hard fans, designated the Color Classic a "road apple" (a technological dud) because of its unbearably slow 16-megahertz processor and Apple's decision not to offer parts that let users upgrade their machines.
Specifically, if each user only sends one-bit decision ("1" for signal present and "0" for signal absent) and no other information is available at the central processor, some commonly adopted decision fusion rules are described as follows [42].
An alternative detection rule is the decentralized one (see, e.g. [14 17]), according to which each node performs a hard decision, then transmits the resulting binary symbols to a central processor, that executes the final decision.
In decision fusion, each user sends its one-bit or multiple-bit decision to a central processor, which deploys a fusion rule to make the final decision.
