"This book provides an introduction to different types of decision theory techniques, including MDPs, POMDPs, Influence Diagrams, and Reinforcement Learning, and illustrates their application in artificial intelligence"-- Provided by publisher.

We examine bidding behavior in first-price sealed-bid and Dutch auctions, which are strategically equivalent under standard preferences. We investigate whether the empirical breakdown of this equivalence is due to (non-standard) preferences or due to the different complexity of the two formats...

Big data and artificial intelligence dominate business news coverage, but these are far from singular solutions to any business challenge. At the core of successful decision-making is human instinct driven by experience and information. Mind+Machine is the groundbreaking guide to combining the...