Improving Municipal Urban Design Decision-Making by Using Digital Tools

Sequential Decision Making for Improving Efficiency in Urban Environments

Rapid “urbanization” (more than 50% of world’s population now resides in cities) coupled with the natural lack of coordination in usage of common resources (ex: bikes, ambulances, taxis, traffic personnel, attractions) has a detrimental effect on a wide variety of response (ex: waiting times, response time for emergency needs) and coverage metrics (ex: predictability of traffic/security patrols...

Improving Group Decision-Making by Artificial Intelligence

We summarize some of our recent work on using AI to improve group decision-making by taking a unified approach from statistics, economics, and computation. We then discuss a few ongoing and future directions.

Design and testing of tools for shared decision making.

Improving Investment Decision Making by Expanding Key Knowledge with Real Option Tools

Assessment of investment profitability with discounted cash flows has proven insufficient when industry structures change. Managers need an extended flexibility in decision– making that DCF analyzes cannot offer. Real Option valuation as a method for improving flexibility in investment decisions has been widely researched but less used in business. With good support tools it is possible for man...

Tools for Artificial Decision Making*

Today there are numerous tools for decision analysis that run on ordinary PCs, designed primarily for use by human decision-makers. However, not only humans make decisions. Intelligent agents are also faced with decision problems. In this paper we investigate if any of the computerized tools for decision analysis are useful for artificial decision-makers. Special attention is given to real-time...