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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Decision Making Methods

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 157-0311/01
Abbreviation MRM
Course title Decision Making Methods
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator Ing. Anna Křížová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Purpose and objective decision making theory.
 Decision-making in management.
 decisions such as choosing a specific type.
 decision-making process as a sequence of decisions over time.
 Basic to effective decisions.
2. Typology of decision-making processes.
 Decision making under certainty, uncertainty and risk.
 Decision Making an exact, empirical-intuitive, heuristic.
 individual and collective decisions.
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3. The structure of decision-making process.
4. Decision making under certainty, risk and uncertainty.
 The decision matrix.
 Total expected consequences rule minimaxima, Savage, Hurwitzovo.
5. Methods for determining their characteristics.
 Simple methods of decision making.
 Mathematical Methods and Operations Research.
 Other methods.
6. A simple method of choosing the best option.
 scale nominal, ordinal and cardinal.
 weighted rating.
7.- 8. Logical and analytical methods.
 Decision analysis and its structure.
 Application of decision analysis.
9.- 10. Methods of using the knowledge of graph theory.
 Decision trees deterministic and stochastic.
 Decision trees with a time and material sequences.
11. Decision networks.
 Decision networks deterministic and stochastic.
12. Formal - logical methods.
 Decision table and its quadrants.
 Decision tables and mixed with a defined option.
13.- 14. Other methods.
 Prognostic methods based on the information experts of individual forms and collecting forms.

Literature

1. Noorderhaven, N.G.: Strategic Decision Making. Addison-Wesley 1995
2. Johnson,G., Scholes,K.: Cesty k úspěšnému podniku. Computer Press 2000, ISBN 80-7226-220-3


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son,G., Scholes,K.: Cesty k úspěšnému podniku. Computer Press 2000, ISBN 80-7226-220-3

Advised literature

1.Cooke,S., Slack,N.: Making management decisions. Prentice Hall International 1991
2.Checkland,P.: Soft Systems Methodology in Action, John Wiley 1991