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This volume argues that Soviet actions in the Middle East reflected the unwillingness or inability of Soviet leaders to reconcile their regional goals with broader global objectives. It examines actions in: the 1967 Six Day War; the 1969-1970 War of Attrition; and the October War of 1973.
In a fast-moving world, the necessity of making decisions has become difficult. One reason is the variety and number of choices perhaps available which often are not presented or understood. This book presents research on the psychology of decision making related to education, behaviour and high risk situations.
Gilboa and Schmeidler provide paradigm for modelling decision making under uncertainty.
A mixture of historical and forward-looking essays on key topics in decision analysis.
A study of the theory of bargaining and voting power and how it applies to real decision-making contexts.
This book is a major contribution to decision theory, focusing on the question of when it is rational to accept scientific theories.
Increasingly, patients with breast cancer are participating in the surgical and/or medical decision about their treatment. This text addresses issues relating to shared decision making and in particular those areas where a choice of treatment option involves some degree of risk/benefit analysis.
People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign, treating them as absolutes and ignoring the consequences of following them blindly. The author explores these deeply felt intuitions and their effect on the public domain.
This clearly written introduction covers all main aspects of decision theory and features a full glossary and over 100 exercises.
This work offers a treatment of the exercises and case studies as well as summaries of the book Linear Optimization and Extensions by Manfred Padberg. It covers the areas of linear programming and the optimization of linear functions over polyhedra in finite dimensional Euclidean vector spaces.
This work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world.
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. This book offers a fresh way of looking at the world for individuals and governments alike.
Reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision-making. This book shows how intuition works and analyzes the techniques that people use to make good decisions - whether it's in personnel selection or heart surgery. It demonstrates how gut thinking can change your world.