An introduction to Decision Making Under uncertainty from a computational perspective, covering both Theory and applications ranging from speech recognition to airborne collision avoidance.
It will also be a valuable professional reference for researchers in a variety of disciplines..
It can be used as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in fields including computer science, aerospace and electrical engineering, and management science.
Decision Making Under Uncertainty unifies research from different communities using consistent notation, and is accessible to students and researchers across engineering disciplines who have some prior exposure to probability Theory and calculus.
A series of applications shows how the theoretical concepts can be applied to systems for attribute-based person search, speech applications, collision avoidance, and unmanned aircraft persistent surveillance.
Focusing on two methods for designing Decision agents, planning and reinforcement learning, the book covers probabilistic models, introducing Bayesian networks as a graphical model that captures probabilistic relationships between variables; utility Theory as a framework for understanding optimal Decision Making Under uncertainty
Markov Decision processes as a method for modeling sequential problems; model uncertainty; state uncertainty; and cooperative Decision Making involving multiple interacting agents.
It presents both the Theory behind Decision Making models and algorithms and a collection of example applications that range from speech recognition to aircraft collision avoidance.
This book provides an introduction to the challenges of Decision Making Under uncertainty from a computational perspective.
Designers of automated Decision support systems must take into account the various sources of uncertainty while balancing the multiple objectives of the system.
Many important problems involve Decision Making Under uncertainty--that is, choosing actions based on often imperfect observations, with unknown outcomes.
An introduction to Decision Making Under uncertainty from a computational perspective, covering both Theory and applications ranging from speech recognition to airborne collision avoidance
