The course focuses on how managers, individually and in groups, make decisions. It covers the major descriptive and normative models of managerial problem diagnosis and alternative generation. By comprehending how managers solve problems, students will be prepared to build computer-based support tools. Management Science Model Building for Decision Making. Various programming techniques are surveyed with an emphasis on the why and how of these types of models as opposed to a detailed theoretical approach.
Students develop programming models which relate to their areas of interest.
Stored computer programs are used extensively in order to accomplish the mathematical manipulations. Emphasis will be placed on input requirements and interpretation of results. DSc 818 0. Sampling Theory and Applications. This course brings together the theory and methodology of sampling to give the student tools with which to enhance the quality and reliability of information used in the decision process.