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  • General description

    The purpose of the course, on the other hand, is to provide students with fundamental concepts and tools that help them identify and deal with decision problems in organization, and on other hand, to enlarge their horizon to think innovatively and create new tools and models to solve this type of problems. This can be done by providing students with capabilities and skills to identify decision systems and its components, the relationship with information systems, and other skills to deal with preferences models of the decision maker. Some qualitative and quantitative models to analyze and to solve decision problem will be presented in this course, especially concepts and techniques of the utility theory and decision trees, and other methods in multiple criteria decision making based on binary comparisons.