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Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

IIT Madras, , Prof. Prof. N. Gautam

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

We are often faced with situations where we need to make decisions that have implications for personal and institutional goals. When there is uncertainty involved, we could either go with our gut feeling or take an analytical approach by characterizing the uncertainty, defining an objective, and evaluating the risk/payoffs of choices. This course is about the latter and is presented through the usage of example problem instances.

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Lecture 1: Tutorial - How to Install Octave and using Octave

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Lecture Details

Course Details

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1: Background and introduction: risk, uncertainty and variability; probability, random variables and expectation; optimization criteria; types of decisions

Week 2: One-time decisions: secretary problem; utility function; decision trees; TV game shows; Monte Hall problem; project evaluation

Week 3: Repeated decisions: newsvendor problem; buffering to manage uncertainty; safety stock for inventory; route planning; exploration vs. exploitation

Week 4: Sequential adaptive decision-making: strategic and operational; stochastic programming; Simpsons Paradox; Markov decision process

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Sam

Excellent course helped me understand topic that i couldn't while attendinfg my college.

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Dembe

Great course. Thank you very much.

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