This class is designed for the students who are interesting in solving the traditional operation management problems through the help of the concept and formulation of each of the modules such as Decision Analysis with tables and trees, time series forecasting, location analysis, layout analysis, etc. A special DSS software for management Science will be used to solve the problems related to this class. Prerequisites for this class will be Operations Research, Statistics, Production and Operation Management, and Management Information System. The course is an introduction to the technical issues, principles, current results, and likely directions drawing upon the research literature and activity in the area of multimedia computing. Much attention will be focused on WWW, including the novel language Java that has been designed particularly for the secure and platform-independent applications over the internet.
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Organizational participants make decisions concerning the success of the organization. The purpose of this course is to illustrate the study of decision making behavior by introducing various theories contributed by economists and psychologists. The first couple of weeks will be devoted to the concepts of decision making assumed by early researchers, such as rational choice, expected utilities and Bayes's theorem. Then the challenging psychological experiments will be discussed. More approaches to rationality, such as bounded theories, ecological theories will also be discussed.