Alexandra Mark Bücher

The narrative explores the prosecution of Martha Stewart, highlighting how her celebrity status, rather than actual wrongdoing, led to her indictment and imprisonment. It discusses the significant impact of her case on her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which saw a sharp decline in shares following her indictment. The prosecution aimed to use her as a cautionary tale against white-collar crime, raising questions about justice, celebrity, and the motivations behind high-profile legal actions.

The target of this thesis was to develop an anticipating and learning deci- human decision sion making system for competitive decision problems. Humans are so- making as model phisticated decision makers – they are not purely stimulus-driven, but internally simulate possible strategies and consequences before their execution. To allow the integration of environmental changes into this simulation (e.g. represented by a dynamic opponent in a competitive interaction), an imitator model is built. This allows to adapt the different available decision strategies, which humans have in mind, to a dynamically changing environment. After an evaluation according to personal preferences the resulting decision is made. These decision making concepts allow humans to make very exible and robust decisions. Neurobiological ndings cannot provide detailed guidelines for the development of a system. Nevertheless hypotheses regarding the general architectural approach can be translated into arti cial systems.