TY - BOOK AU - Cox,Louis Anthony TI - Breakthroughs in decision science and risk analysis T2 - Wiley essentials in operations research and management science SN - 9781118217160 U1 - 658.403 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New Jersey PB - John Wiley KW - Decision making KW - Risk assessment N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. The ways we decide: reconciling hearts and minds -- 3. Simulation optimization: improving decisions under uncertainty -- 4. Optimal learning in business decisions -- 5. Using preference orderings to make quantitative trade-offs -- 6. Causal analysis and modeling for decision and risk analysis -- 7. Making decisions without trustworthy risk models -- 8. Medical decision-making: an application -- 9. Electric power vulnerability models: form protection to resilience -- 10. Outthinking the terrorists -- Index N2 - With a simple and clear exposition, Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis details recent advances in the theory, methods, and applications of decision and risk analysis that can significantly change and improve how we learn from important practical decisions. ER -