Handbook on Decision Making : Vol 1: Techniques and Applications

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ISBN 10: 3642136389 / ISBN 13: 9783642136382

Edité par Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 548 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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• Titre: Handbook on Decision Making : Vol 1: Techniques and Applications
• Éditeur: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3642136389
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783642136382
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Sehr gut
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Decision making arises when we wish to select the best possible course of action from a set of alternatives. With advancements of the digital technologies, it is easy, and almost instantaneous, to gather a large volume of information and/or data pertaining to a problem that we want to solve. For instance, the world-wi- web is perhaps the primary source of information and/or data that we often turn to when we face a decision making problem. However, the information and/or data that we obtain from the real world often are complex, and comprise various kinds of noise. Besides, real-world information and/or data often are incomplete and ambiguous, owing to uncertainties of the environments. All these make decision making a challenging task. To cope with the challenges of decision making, - searchers have designed and developed a variety of decision support systems to provide assistance in human decision making processes. The main aim of this book is to provide a small collection of techniques stemmed from artificial intelligence, as well as other complementary methodo- gies, that are useful for the design and development of intelligent decision support systems. Application examples of how these intelligent decision support systems can be utilized to help tackle a variety of real-world problems in different - mains, e. g. business, management, manufacturing, transportation and food ind- tries, and biomedicine, are also presented. A total of twenty chapters, which can be broadly divided into two parts, i. e.