in the macro education plan for iran (2010-2025), twelve years of schooling has been characterized as “general” education. such a characterization is prone to certain misconceptions. general education does not equal “uniform,” or standardized, education and should refrain from identifying as such. yet it is misinterpreted that there is a relationship between offering a general type of education...

We describe the use of synthetic information for doing prescriptive and predictive analytics. We discuss in detail how synthetic information is created by combining data from multiple sources, and then describe its role in an an ongoing disaster resilience study where we simulate the aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear detonation in Washington DC.

The recent proliferation of facility-siting conflicts underscores the need for new analytical techniques in which the external effects associated with noxious facilities are considered explicitly. In general, in prescriptive facility-location models it is assumed that having populations "closer", as characterized by transport or accessibility advantages, is better for desirable facilities, but,...

Many approaches for solving problems in business and industry are based on analytics statistical modeling. Analytical problem is driven by the modeling of relationships between dependent (Y) independent (X) variables, we discuss three frameworks such relationships: cause-and-effect modeling, popular applied statistics beyond, correlational predictive machine learning, deductive (first-principle...

The first problem encountered in discussions about the three closely linked purposes of decision research is a lack of agreement about the meanings of the three terms descriptive, normative, and prescriptive. The goal of these comments is to illustrate my understanding of the terms and suggest areas for future prescriptive research. Normative decision research identifies logically compelling pr...