Introduction to intelligent engineering decision support systems (iDSS) for normative and descriptive approaches in decision analysis. Concepts include theories of decision-making, multi-objective analysis and optimization, intelligent representations of human behavior - AI decision surrogates – expert systems – case based reasoning, and decision-making under risk and uncertainty.
Textbooks and Materials
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Instructors
Steve Conrad
Steve.Conrad@colostate.edu
Dr. Steve Conrad has conducted research and consulted with the water and energy industry for over 25 years on the feedbacks between human-environmental systems through the coupling of social and engineering sciences to inform decision making and visualization, the quantification and modelling of system function, system optimization and resilience, and policy and planning as applied to energy, water and food systems, sustainable community design, and climate change adaptation.
