88-635 Decision Science and Policy

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Research in the social sciences has extensively investigated how decision makers behave when they encounter many different and difficult decision scenarios. This course serves as an introduction to how relevant research from decision and social sciences can be applied to policy questions encountered by governments intelligence and policy analysts and private industry business strategists and information officers. Topics of operations research, game theory, signal detection theory, and decision theory heuristics and biases will be discussed with respect to the application of these theories to improve the performance of individuals and groups within these organizations.

Prerequisites: none listed

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