Operations research A mathematical discipline which treats generalizations of the inventory-control example below, which is of huge practical significance
Economics Much of economics study the decisions of of rational agents
Neuroscience Studies how the brain changes (learn) from repeated exposure of reward/punishment
Psychology Humans also take rational decisions. What principles guide human decisionmaking?
Computer science AI is to a large extend about building program which can solve sequential decision problems like talking, locomotion, step-wise reasoning/deduction, path-finding, and so on
Engineering Control and optimal control theory is centrally concerned with sequential decision making so as to bring about a goal
Focus on entire class of problems (decision problems), not specific methods (Gaussian processes, variational methods, regression trees, kernal methods, etc)
search, multi-agent planning, optimal control, optimal planning, reinforcement learning
