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Human actor systems — individual and collective actors — are capable of an amazing variety of behavioral modes. While some of these modes clearly represent unreflected application of stored behavioral programs, and some result from random choices, others are obviously the end product of complex cognitive processes. This paper is concerned with the latter — here termed nonroutine behavior.

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Bossel, H. (1977). Orientors of Nonroutine Behavior. In: Bossel, H. (eds) Concepts and Tools of Computer-assisted Policy Analysis. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5570-9_7

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