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
02
Bayesian & Decision Networks
Compact state spaces with Bayesian & Decision Networks — and why inference stays hard
03
Game Theory & Nash Equilibria
Multiple agents, best responses, and Nash & correlated equilibria
04
Sequential Decision Making
Decisions over time: MDPs & the Bellman equation, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo Tree Search
05
Behavioral Decision Making
How humans really decide: rationality paradoxes, bounded rationality, heuristics & biases, and prospect theory
06
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