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Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis


Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis


Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science 1. Aufl.

von: Louis Anthony Cox

118,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 18.02.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781118938904
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 328

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<p><b>Discover recent powerful advances in the theory, methods, and applications of decision and risk analysis</b></p> <p>Focusing on modern advances and innovations in the field of decision analysis (DA), <i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> presents theories and methods for making, improving, and learning from significant practical decisions. The book explains these new methods and important applications in an accessible and stimulating style for readers from multiple backgrounds, including psychology, economics, statistics, engineering, risk analysis, operations research, and management science.</p> <p>Highlighting topics not conventionally found in DA textbooks, the book illustrates genuine advances in practical decision science, including developments and trends that depart from, or break with, the standard axiomatic DA paradigm in fundamental and useful ways. The book features methods for coping with realistic decision-making challenges such as online adaptive learning algorithms, innovations in robust decision-making, and the use of a variety of models to explain available data and recommend actions. In addition, the book illustrates how these techniques can be applied to dramatically improve risk management decisions. <i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> also includes:</p> <ul> <li>An emphasis on new approaches rather than only classical and traditional ideas</li> <li>Discussions of how decision and risk analysis can be applied to improve high-stakes policy and management decisions</li> <li>Coverage of the potential value and realism of decision science within applications in financial, health, safety, environmental, business, engineering, and security risk management</li> <li>Innovative methods for deciding what actions to take when decision problems are not completely known or described or when useful probabilities cannot be specified</li> <li>Recent breakthroughs in the psychology and brain science of risky decisions, mathematical foundations and techniques, and integration with learning and pattern recognition methods from computational intelligence</li> </ul> <p><i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> is an ideal reference for researchers, consultants, and practitioners in the fields of decision science, operations research, business, management science, engineering, statistics, and mathematics. The book is also an appropriate guide for managers, analysts, and decision and policy makers in the areas of finance, health and safety, environment, business, engineering, and security risk management.</p>
<p>Foreword vii</p> <p>Preface ix</p> <p>Contributors xi</p> <p>1. Introduction: Five Breakthroughs in Decision and Risk Analysis 1<br /><i>Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr.</i></p> <p>2. The Ways We Decide: Reconciling Hearts and Minds 19<br /><i>Edward C. Rosenthal</i></p> <p>3. Simulation Optimization: Improving Decisions under Uncertainty 59<br /><i>Marco Better, Fred Glover, and Gary Kochenberger</i></p> <p>4. Optimal Learning in Business Decisions 83<br /><i>Ilya O. Ryzhov</i></p> <p>5. Using Preference Orderings to Make Quantitative Trade-Offs 123<br /><i>Chen Wang and Vicki M. Bier</i></p> <p>6. Causal Analysis and Modeling for Decision and Risk Analysis 149<br /><i>Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr. Copyrighted Material</i></p> <p>7. Making Decisions without Trustworthy Risk Models 189<br /><i>Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr.</i></p> <p>8. Medical Decision-Making: An Application to Sugar-Sweetened Beverages 235<br /><i>Andrea C. Hupman and Ali E. Abbas</i></p> <p>9. Electric Power Vulnerability Models: From Protection to Resilience 259<br /><i>Sinan Tas and Vicki M. Bier</i></p> <p>10. Outthinking the Terrorists 287<br /><i>Jason Merrick, Philip Leclerc, Hristo Trenkov, and Robert Olsen</i></p> <p>Index313</p>
<p>"Dr. Louis Anthony Cox and 14 contributors have written a valuable text that describes the current state and recent advances in decision and risk analysis. Besides addressing breakthroughs in the psychology and brain science of risky decisions, it also includes methods for deciding what actions to take when information is sparse and useful probabilities cannot be determined." (<i>Ben Rothke</i>, May 2016)</p>
<p><b>Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr. PhD,</b> is Chief Sciences Officer of NextHealth Technologies, a Denver-based health care advanced analytics software company and President of Cox Associates, Inc., a Denver-based applied research company specializing in quantitative health risk assessment, risk analysis, causal modeling, and operations research. Dr. Cox is also Clinical Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics at the University of Colorado at Denver, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of <i>Risk Analysis: An International Journal</i>.</p>
<p><b>Discover recent powerful advances in the theory, methods, and applications of decision and risk analysis</b></p> <p>Focusing on recent advances and innovations in the field of decision analysis (DA), <i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> presents theories and methods for making, improving, and learning from significant practical decisions. The book explains these new methods and important applications in an easily accessible and stimulating style for readers from multiple backgrounds, including psychology, economics, statistics, engineering, risk analysis, operations research, and management science.</p> <p>Emphasizing topics not traditionally found in DA literature, the book illustrates genuine advances in practical decision science and includes developments and trends that depart from, or break with, the standard axiomatic DA paradigm in fundamental and useful ways.  The book features methods for coping with realistic decision-making challenges, including online adaptive learning algorithms, innovations in robust decision-making, and the use of a variety of models to provide more-or-less plausible explanations for available data and recommended actions. In addition, the book illustrates how these techniques can be applied to dramatically improve risk management decisions. <i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> also includes:</p> <ul> <li>An emphasis on new approaches rather than classical and traditional ideas</li> <li>Discussions of how decision and risk analysis can be applied to improve high-stakes policy and management decisions</li> <li>Coverage of the potential value and realism of decision science within applications in financial, health, safety, environmental, business, engineering, and security risk management</li> <li>Innovative methods for deciding what to do when decision problems are not completely known or described or when useful probabilities cannot be specified</li> <li>Recent breakthroughs in the psychology and brain science of risky decisions, mathematical foundations and techniques, and integration with learning and pattern recognition methods from computational intelligence</li> </ul> <p><i>Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis</i> is an ideal reference for researchers, consultants, and practitioners in the fields of decision science, operations research, business, management science, engineering, statistics, and mathematics. The book is also an appropriate guide for managers, analysts, and decision and policy makers in the areas of finance, health and safety, environment, business, engineering, and security risk management.</p>

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