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Is multi-tasking complex?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

W. Bentley MacLeod
W. Bentley MacLeod
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and The Law School, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0253 wmacleod@usc.edu
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Abstract

In a simple economic decision problem with multi-tasking the dimensionality of the problem is neither a necessary nor a sufficient measure of complexity. Rather, dimension is good measure of complexity when there is an aggregate resource constraint that creates an interaction between the different activities, resulting in a problem with high algorithmic complexity.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 840 - 841
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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