Overview

This volume examines applications of decision analysis in both the public and private sectors. The first part contains applications in natural resources and environmental decision making. Within this context, the contributors use such methodologies as Markov decision processes, multiattribute decision analysis, optimal control theory and a new methodology called management by exception principle that incorporates multiattribute utility theory and dynamic models. The second part is devoted to medical decision making with applications of expected utility optimization, decision support systems, and influence diagrams. Economics and finance constitute an important area of application and part three reviews applications including the use of fuzzy linear programming, intertemporal dynamic asset pricing models, and multicriteria decision making. Part four contains educational applications. The book also presents miscellaneous applications of decision analysis including the use of multiattribute utility theory to evaluate nuclear disposal options and the use of dynamic graphical models to approach the classical problems of maintenance and replacement. The wide and varied range of applications in this volume should help those interested in real world applications of decision analysis and decision making to deal with complex problems.

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Author:   Francisco Javier Girón ,  M. Lina Martínez
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9789048157778

ISBN 10:   9048157773
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   09 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I Natural Resources and Environmental Decision Making.- Design of a Decision Support System for use in the Event of a Nuclear Emergency.- Contaminated Aquatic Ecosystems Restoration: A Case Study.- Is Economic Growth Compatible with the Respect for the Environment?.- Sow Model for Decision Aid at Farm Level.- Intelligent Decision Support for Reservoir Operations.- Analysis of Livestock Production Systems via Compromise Programming.- Using Mathematical Models in the Management of Forest Industries.- II Medical Decision Making.- Automatic Diagnostic of Breast Cancer: A Case Study.- Decision Analysis for a Data Monitoring Committee of a Clinical Trial.- Optimal Design in Longitudinal Data Models.- An Intelligent Decision System for Jaundice Management in Newborn Babies.- III Economics and Finance.- A Theory of Possibility Approach to The Solution of a Fuzzy Linear Programming.- Measuring the Arbitrage Opportunities in an Intertemporal Dynamic Asset Pricing Model.- Work-leisure Trade-off in a Workers’ Enterprise: A Decision Analysis Approach.- Implementing Financial Equilibrium of Incomplete Markets: Bounded Portfolios and the Limiting Case.- IV Educational Applications.- A Decision Analysis Approach to Multiple-Choice Examinations.- Equilibrium Policies among University Departments.- V Miscellaneous Applications.- Evaluation of Alternatives for the Disposition of Surplus Weapons-usable Plutonium.- A Graphical Model for Equipment Maintenance and Replacement Problems.- VI Epilog.- Decision Analysis for Private and Public Sector Decisions.

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