Decision and Risk

Objectives

When approved the student will:

- have had contact with the problematic of decision-making with a single or multiple decision makers,

- know the most important models of decision support, with or without negotiation, and risk,

- understand what kind of data should be collected and processed to support previous models,

- be able to identify and build the adequate models for problems that he or she may face his/her future professional context.

General characterization

Code

12081

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Nelson Fernando Chibeles Pereira Martins

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 72

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Hillier, Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, Mc Graw - Hill, 10th ed (2015) 

Goodwin, P. e Wright, G. – Decision Analysis for Management Judgement (2014) – John Wiley & Sons

Opricovic, S., Tzeng, G.-H., (2004). Compromise solution by MCDM methods: A comparative analysis of VIKOR and TOPSIS. Eur. J. Oper. Res. 156, 445–455.

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Fudenberg F. and Tirole, J. (1995) Game Theory, The MIT Press, 1995.

Kelly A. (2003) Decision Making Using Game Theory: An Introduction for Managers, Cambridge University Press.

Peterson M. (2009) An Introduction to Decision Theory, Cambridge University Press.

Vose D. (2008) Risk Analysis: A Quantitative Guide. John Wiley & Sons.

Teaching method

Please, contact the e-mail npm@fct.unl.pt

Evaluation method

Please, contact the e-mail npm@fct.unl.pt

Subject matter

I. Decision theory - what is a decision? - structure and analyses of decision-making problems - sequential decisions - decisions with several objectives

II. Game theory - modelling strategic interaction - static games of complete information - dynamic games of complete and incomplete information - cooperative game theory

III. Risk - definition - fundamental model of risk - factors and measures of risk other models for risk

Programs

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