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 …

dynamic models which allow to analyze and foster the decision making of firms in dynamic complex environments. The scope of … of dynamic optimization, dynamic games and meta-heuristics, which help to improve our understanding of (optimal) decision … -- Handling the complexity of predator-prey systems: managerial decision making in urban economic development and sustainable …

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