The research and its outcomes presented here focus on spatial sampling of agricultural resources. The authors introduce … sampling designs and methods for producing accurate estimates of crop production for harvests across different regions and …

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economists model decision-making, how behavioral economics failed to correct them, and how they led to the problems with …

This textbook is about three key aspects of system design: decision making under uncertainty, trade-off studies and … functions, quantitative metrics, prioritization and sensitivity analyses. Furthermore, human decision-making activities and … problems use these same tools. Therefore, these problems are also treated uniformly and modeled using prospect theory. Aimed at …

This book presents classical Markov Decision Processes (MDP) for real-life applications and optimization. MDP allows … users to develop and formally support approximate and simple decision rules, and this book showcases state … Policies In Mdps With Unbounded Jumps: The State Of Our Art -- Markov Decision Processes For Screening And Treatment Of Chronic …

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