Publisher's Synopsis
This book presents a comprehensive and updated account of concepts, methods and techniques of decision-making. It has derived strength from advances in several branches of knowledge including mathematics, computer science, behavioural economics, logic and related areas, besides statistical decision theory. The reader will find here an integrated picture of concepts, methods and analytics to aid decision-making in a wide array of situations, ranging from classical optimization to computational social choice and organizational responses to emergency and stress. Decision-making: Concepts, Methods and Techniques lucidly presents the decision-making tools aided and strengthened by decision theory in all its domains and dimensions, at the same time emphasizing the role of human behaviour in all its diversity.
