[UAI] New Book on Info-gap Decisions

From: Yakov Ben-Haim (yakov@aluf.technion.ac.il)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 09:34:03 PST

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                         New Book from Academic Press

                       INFORMATION-GAP DECISION THEORY:
                      DECISIONS UNDER SEVERE UNCERTAINTY

                                Yakov Ben-Haim
                      Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
                 Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology
                              Haifa 32000 Israel
                          yakov@aluf.technion.ac.il
                       http://www.technion.ac.il/~yakov

    ADVANCE PRAISE:

        "Professor Yakov Ben-Haim has written a landmark book ... His
    information-gap modeling approach to decision making under uncertainty
    constitutes a new and revolutionary approach for addressing tough
    decision problems when little information is available."
        Prof. Keith Hipel, University of Waterloo, Canada.

    DESCRIPTION:

        Everyone makes decisions, but not everyone is a decision analyst.
    A decision analyst uses quantitative models and computational methods
    to formulate decision algorithms, assess decision performance,
    identify and evaluate options, determine trade-offs and risks,
    evaluate strategies for investigation, and so on. This book is
    written for decision analysts.

        Decision analysts provide quantitative support for the
    decision-making process in all areas where systematic decisions are
    made. Decision analysts include engineers, analysts in planning
    offices and public agencies, project management consultants,
    manufacturing process planners, financial and economic analysts,
    informatics experts supporting medical or technological diagnosis, and
    so on and on.

        Info-gap decision theory is radically different from all current
    theories of decision under uncertainty. The difference originates in
    the modelling of uncertainty as an information gap rather than as a
    probability. The need for info-gap modelling and management of
    uncertainty arises in dealing with severe lack of information and
    highly unstructured uncertainty. What is an information gap? How is
    it quantified? How does one use info-gap ideas to analyze such
    central (and traditionally probabilistic) concepts as risk, gambling,
    reliability and so on? This book addresses these and many other
    questions.

    BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

    Chapter 1 Overview

    Chapter 2 Uncertainty

    Chapter 3 Robustness and Opportunity

    Chapter 4 Value Judgments

    Chapter 5 Antagonistic and Sympathetic Immunities

    Chapter 6 Gambling and Risk-Sensitivity

    Chapter 7 Value of Information

    Chapter 8 Learning

    Chapter 9 Coherent Uncertainties and Consensus

    Chapter 10 Retrospective Essay: Risk Assessment in Project Management

    Chapter 11 Hybrid Uncertainties

    Chapter 12 Implications of Info-Gap Uncertainty

    References

    Author Index

    Subject Index

    PUBLICATION INFORMATION: August 2001. ISBN 0-12-088251-5. $99.95

    ON-LINE ORDERING:

    >From the Academic Press catalog:
    http://www.apcatalog.com/cgi-bin/AP?ISBN=0120882515&LOCATION=US&FORM=FORM2

    >From Amazon.com:
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0120882515/qid%3D1006510409/
    ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-2494037-7248961
    (enter this address as a single line)

    FURTHER INFORMATION can be found at:
                       http://www.technion.ac.il/~yakov

    Dr. Yakov Ben-Haim
    Professor

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000 Israel
    Tel: +972-4-829-3262 Fax: +972-4-832-4533
    yakov@aluf.technion.ac.il http://www.technion.ac.il/~yakov

                      Series Editor, Academic Press
                      Series on Decision and Risk
                      http://www.technion.ac.il/~yakov/sdrfly.htm



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