Decision Support Systems

Bicocca — Advanced Data Management & Support Systems

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Decision Theory Foundations Agents, utility, and choosing rationally under ignorance and risk
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Bayesian & Decision Networks Compact state spaces with Bayesian & Decision Networks — and why inference stays hard
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Game Theory & Nash Equilibria Multiple agents, best responses, and Nash & correlated equilibria
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Sequential Decision Making Decisions over time: MDPs & the Bellman equation, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo Tree Search
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Behavioral Decision Making How humans really decide: rationality paradoxes, bounded rationality, heuristics & biases, and prospect theory
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DSS Architecture & Design Principles Building the system: the formal view, the four-part architecture, model paradigms, and human-centered design
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DSS Evaluation Principles & Methods Judging a DSS: confusion-matrix metrics, calibration & net benefit, fairness & robustness, and human-DSS evaluation