Policymaking Under Uncertainty

Optimal Adaptive Policymaking under Deep Uncertainty? Yes we can!

Uncertainty manifests itself in almost every aspect of decision making. Adaptive and flexible policy design becomes crucial under uncertainty. An adaptive policy is designed to be flexible and can be adapted over time to changing circumstances and unforeseeable surprises. A crucial part of an adaptive policy is the monitoring system and associated pre-specified actions to be taken in response t...

Allies and Adversaries: Appointees and Policymaking Under Separation of Powers

Public sector agencies are an important front in the day-to-day battle for political supremacy between the executive and the legislature. The executive’s key agents in this conflict are his appointees, who frequently play one of two roles: Congressional allies, where they help Congress implement policy and Congressional adversaries, where they fight with Congress to shift policy strongly toward...

Optimization under Uncertainty Optimization Under Uncertainty: An Overview

Optimization under Uncertainty Optimization under Uncertainty: An Overview Urmila Diwekar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming: A Tutorial Vicente Rico-Ramirez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Combinatorial Optimization under Uncertainty Ki-Joo Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Researching Under Uncertainty 1 Design Rationale : Researching Under Uncertainty

Rationale research in software development is a challenging area because while there is no shortage of advocates for its value, there is also no shortage of reasons for why rationale is unlikely to be captured in practice. Despite more than thirty years of research there still remains much uncertainty—how useful are the potential benefits and how insurmountable are the barriers? Will the value ...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty