Information Systems and Decision Analysis Laboratory

Director: Professor Ali Abbas

Everyone makes decisions but a few people think about how they do it. Psychological research has shown that people make decisions that upon close examination, they regard as wrong. Our research focuses on the theory and practice of helping people and organizations make better decisions. This work includes research in many different areas.

Recent research in our lab includes tools and applications in the areas of:
(1) Decision making with incomplete information and preferences,
(2) Data-based decision making
(3) Decision-Based Design
(4) Medical decision making,
(5) Information theory,
(6) Utility theory,
(7) Game theory,
(8) Dynamic programming.

One of our objectives is to bring decision education to high school students and teens. This has resulted in several programs with the Decision Education Foundation. For more information on this, click here Volunteer work.

The Decision Analysis Team is composed of People.

A sample of some of the courses taught are: GE-498 AA Decision Analysis 1 and GE 598 AA Decision Analysis 2

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