Time and Place: 2-2:50 PM M/W/F, 253 FPAT.
Professor:
Dr. J. Goldsmith
Office: 763E Anderson Hall; Phone: 859-257-4245
Office Hours: TBA
or by appointment. Email questions encouraged and answered.
Course Description:
This course will function both as a special-topics course in Computer Science and as the first core course in the Comparative Decision Making Studies certificate curriculum. Students taking it for CS credit will be expected to implement algorithms, probably in mixed-discipline teams. Students not taking this for CS credit will *not* be required to program!
Throughout the semester, types of decision making and decision makers will be considered, as well as methods for modeling analyzing decision making. Students will learn basics of decision making and decision-making studies, computational methods for decision making, and the basics of decision support and decision aid theory, development, and implementation.
Prereqs:
Permission of instructor (please email).
Textbooks:
Essays from the CDMS Conference
Grading:
will be by biweekly assignments, including
response essays, programs, and applications of existing software,
and two longer assignments.
Students will be strongly encouraged to form interdisciplinary teams, and
tutorials will be available for the software.
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Attendance in class and section is very strongly encouraged.
Copying of homework from other students or from other sources is strictly prohibited. Obtaining a solution from another source without citing the source is plagiarism. You are encouraged to visit Dr. Goldsmith in her office hours or to send her email if you are stuck on homework problems. You do not need an appointment for regularly scheduled hours.
Approximate Week by Week Course Outline:
| Date | Topic | Readings and Speakers | Assignment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 27 | Introduction to the course: What is decision-making? | What is [human] decision making? | First assignment | |
| Aug. 29 | Interdisciplinary Research | Brent Seales | ||
| Sept. 3-5 | Doing research: Integrity, sources, interdisciplinarity | |||
| Sept. 8-12 | Computational issues: Optimization | Multiobjective Optimization by Matthias Ehrgott | ||
| Sept. 15 | Subjective Probabilities | Gilboa's Lectures Sec. 6.1, 6.2, Robert Molzon | ||
| Sept. 17-19 | Decision theory and analysis | |||
| Sept. 22-26 | Human biases in decision making | Second assignment | ||
| Sept. 29 | First Project Proposal Due! | |||
| Sept 29-Oct. 1 | Voting Theory | |||
| Oct. 3 | Steve Voss | Third assignment | ||
| Oct. 6-10 | Economic decision making: Biases, models, computation | Economics Handbook and Existential Comics. | ||
| Oct. 13-15 | Medical decision making: patients, clinicians, administrators | |||
| Oct. 17 | First Project Due! | |||
| Oct. 17 | Physicians & Patient Perspectives | Mitzi Schumaker, Readings | ||
| Oct. 20 | Tom Allen | |||
| Oct. 22-24 | Grant funding | |||
| Oct. 22-24 | Phil Crowley | Fourth assignment | ||
| Oct. 27-31 | Psychology of Decision Making | Thomas Zentall | ||
| Nov 3 | Evolutionary biology | Dave Westneat | Fifth assignment | |
| Nov. 10-14 | Cognitive Neuroscience | Yang Jiang: Social Decision-making: Linking Brain and Behavior and (optional) Neural basis of emotional decision making in trait anxiety | ||
| Nov. 14 | Second Project Proposal Due! | |||
| Nov. 17-21 | Applications: Medicine, business, engineering | Clyde Holsapple | Sixth assignment | |
| Nov. 24 | ||||
| Nov. 26-28 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
| Dec. 1-5 | Social Networks and Decision Making | Seventh assignment | ||
| Dec. 8-12 | Course Retrospective | |||
| Dec. 15 | Final Project Due! |
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