Decision methods and models (A.A. 2024/25)

Schedule and classroom


The lessons take place

  • on Thursday, from 16.30 to 18.30, in the Aula magna of the Computer Science department
  • on Friday, from 12.30 to 14.30, in classroom 301 (Celoria)

Exam


The exam is written and composed of 8 parts dealing with the main topics of the course. Each part consists of theoretical questions and numerical exercises.

Lessons

Please check the prerequisites to understand whether you have the sufficient background to take the course (foreign students in particular).

The videorecordings of the lessons are available at the Ariel web site of the course.

Lecture notes in Italian and lecture notes in English are available. Thank you for pointing out errors or unclear statements in either version. Notice that some exercises have not been revised, and provide only the numerical solutions. The students can send their solutions for a check.

The lecture notes include sections marked by an asterisk with a footnote stating that they provide advanced material not required for the exam. To put it as clearly as I can, they provide advanced material not required for the exam.

Additional lecture notes, exercises and solved exams have been provided by a former student. Other students who are keen to take part in this effort are encouraged to contact him. They have not been revised, but there is a partial list of mistakes pointed out by students.

A tentative calendar of the course is:

  • 26th September: Introduction to complicated decision problems (slides)
  • 27th September: Case studies
  • 3rd October: Formal definitions (slides)
  • 4th October: Weak-order models of preference (slides)
  • 10th October: Multi-attribute utility theory (1) (slides)
  • 11th October: Multi-attribute utility theory (2) (slides)
  • 17th October: Mathematical programming (1) (slides)
  • 18th October: Mathematical programming (2) (slides)
  • 24th October: Mathematical programming (exercises and applications: see the lecture notes)
  • 25th October: The Paretian preference (1) (slides)
  • 31st October: The Paretian preference (2) (slides)
  • 7th November: The Paretian preference (exercises: see the lecture notes and the slides)
  • 8th November: Weak rationality approaches (Analytic Hierarchy Process) (slides)
  • 14th November: Weak rationality approaches (ELECTRE Methods) (slides)
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  • 15th November: Decision-making under uncertainty (slides)
  • 21st November: Decision-making under ignorance (incomplete slides)
  • 22nd November: Decision-making under risk (1)
  • 28th November: Decision-making under risk (2)
  • 29th November: Decision theory
  • 5th December: Game theory (generalities)
  • 6th December: Zero-sum games
  • 12th December: Symmetric games
  • 13th December: Group decisions (1)
  • 19th December: Group decisions (2)