decision streams

Noun

decision stream (plural decision streams)

1. A directed acyclic graph of decision rules generated by a statistically-based supervised learning technique or other automated procedure.
   • After the scheduler has been utilized, the user may again enter the decision stream and decide whether to repeat the optimization process or terminate with a simulation.1973, Nicolai Siemens, C. H. Marting, Frank Greenwood, Operations Research, page 424
2. A supervised machine learning technique providing classification with recursive execution of two procedures: partitioning data into statistically different samples and merging the samples which are similar according to the test statistics.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see decision, stream; a sequence of linked decisions.
   • First, I contend that the process through which people become involved in unethical behavior (and by extension wrongful behavior) often consists of a stream of linked decisions, with the early decisions in a decision stream being linked to subsequent decisions by the consequences that they produce.2012, Donald Palmer, Normal Organizational Wrongdoing, page 104