Decision theory: general

This book covers the application of algebraic inequalities for reliability improvement and for uncertainty and risk reduction.

This book covers the application of algebraic inequalities for reliability improvement and for uncertainty and risk reduction.

Reliability technology plays an important role in the present era of industrial growth, optimal efficiency, and reducing hazards.

Reliability technology plays an important role in the present era of industrial growth, optimal efficiency, and reducing hazards.

To meet the needs of today, engineered products and systems are an important element of the world economy, and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of products and systems around the globe.

To meet the needs of today, engineered products and systems are an important element of the world economy, and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of products and systems around the globe.

This new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications.

This new edition serves both as a reference guide for the experienced professional and as a preparation source for those desiring certifications.

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially.

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.

This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers.

In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters.

When it comes to managing cybersecurity in an organization, most tussle with basic foundational components.

Improving Learning Environments provides the first systematic comparative cross-national study of school disciplinary climates.

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about the nature of resistance to organizational change and the effects of champion behavior.

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organization's systematic HSEQ performance.

Internal auditing is an essential tool for managing compliance and for initiating and driving continual improvement in any organization's systematic HSEQ performance.

An incredible volume of data is generated at a very high speed within the supply chain and it is necessary to understand, use and effectively apply the knowledge learned from analyzing data using intelligent business models.

Volume 2 of Logistics, Supply Chain and Procurement Case Study Collection contains new case studies tackling Supply Chain and Procurement issues, aiming to provide solutions affecting a range of different businesses.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

An invaluable primer on the role economic reasoning plays in campus debate and decision makingCampus Economics provides college and university administrators, trustees, and faculty with an essential understanding of how college finances actually work.

The conventional interpretation of safety, known as Safety-I, denotes a condition where as little as possible goes wrong, and the focus of practical efforts in management or analysis is on the occurrence of unacceptable outcomes and on how to reduce their number to an acceptable level, ideally zero.

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

A textbook and guide to conducting Bayesian decision analysis of sometimes very complex policies and collaborative decisions.

A text in decision theory with applications to economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management, health, computer science, statistics, and engineering.

A text in decision theory with applications to economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management, health, computer science, statistics, and engineering.

A survey of the fundamental issues and techniques surrounding risk management.

A multi-disciplinary exploration of how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions.

This book describes the new generation of discrete choice methods, focusing on the many advances that are made possible by simulation.

A survey of the fundamental issues and techniques surrounding risk management.

A study of the theory of bargaining and voting power and how it applies to real decision-making contexts.

A compendium of credit risk modelling approaches, including several new techniques that extend the horizons of future research and practice.

The most complete defense of causal decision theory available.

Introduces the reader to a wide variety of research results on pricing techniques and revenue management.

A mixture of historical and forward-looking essays on key topics in decision analysis.

In this book, the authors reconceptualize existing macroeconomics by treating equilibria as statistical distributions, not as fixed points.

A concise survey of basic probability theory from a thoroughly subjective point of view.

Gilboa and Schmeidler provide paradigm for modelling decision making under uncertainty.

Layer of Protection Analysis: Simplified Process Risk Assessment Layer of protection analysis (LOPA) is a recently developed, simplified method of risk assessment that provides the much-needed middle ground between a qualitative process hazard analysis and a traditional, expensive quantitative risk analysis.

Quantitative Risk Analysis is a powerful tool used to help manage risk and improve safety.

Chemical process quantitative risk analysis (CPQRA) as applied to the CPI was first fully described in the first edition of this CCPS Guidelines book.

The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning,judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format.

Risk and reliability analysis is an area of growing importance in geotechnical engineering, where many variables have to be considered.

The need to understand, interpret and analyse competing risk data is key to many areas of science, particularly medical research.

We all face risks in a variety of ways, as individuals, businesses and societies.

This handbook shows a firm how to repurpose its risk management in order to design and implement a corporate culture which involves all business units and individuals at each level of the hierarchy, how to analyse its risk appetite, translate it into risk policies and risk targets and distribute responsibilities and capabilities accordingly.

This handbook shows a firm how to repurpose its risk management in order to design and implement a corporate culture which involves all business units and individuals at each level of the hierarchy, how to analyse its risk appetite, translate it into risk policies and risk targets and distribute responsibilities and capabilities accordingly.

Continuing its superiority in the health care risk management field, this sixth edition of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations is written by the key practitioners and consultant in the field.