Algorithms to Live By

Algorithms to Live By
Author: Brian Christian
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1627790365

'Algorithms to Live By' looks at the simple, precise algorithms that computers use to solve the complex 'human' problems that we face, and discovers what they can tell us about the nature and origin of the mind.

Computer-Supported Collaborative Decision-Making

Computer-Supported Collaborative Decision-Making
Author: Florin Gheorghe Filip
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319472216

This is a book about how management and control decisions are made by persons who collaborate and possibly use the support of an information system. The decision is the result of human conscious activities aiming at choosing a course of action for attaining a certain objective (or a set of objectives). The act of collaboration implies that several entities who work together and share responsibilities to jointly plan, implement and evaluate a program of activities to achieve the common goals. The book is intended to present a balanced view of the domain to include both well-established concepts and a selection of new results in the domains of methods and key technologies. It is meant to answer several questions, such as: a) “How are evolving the business models towards the ever more collaborative schemes?”; b) “What is the role of the decision-maker in the new context?” c) “What are the basic attributes and trends in the domain of decision-supporting information systems?”; d) “Which are the basic methods to aggregate the individual preferences?” e)“What is the impact of modern information and communication technologies on the design and usage of decision support systems for groups of people?”.

Knowledge, Data and Computer-Assisted Decisions

Knowledge, Data and Computer-Assisted Decisions
Author: Martin Schader
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642842186

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Data, Expert Knowledge and Decisions, held in Hamburg, FRG, September 3-5, 1989

Algorithms to Live By

Algorithms to Live By
Author: Brian Christian
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1627790373

An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to peering into the future, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Making Buying Decisions

Making Buying Decisions
Author: Richard Clodfelter
Publisher: Fairchild Books & Visuals
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781563672231

This text, written for students who wish to plan a career in merchandising, includes a CD-ROM with Windows-based Microsoft Excel data. Designed for use in a buying course with a heavy math emphasis, activities involve the student solving merchandising problems by using computerized spreadsheets. This manual is designed to accompany the text Retail Buying, 2nd edition, also by Richard Clodfelter.

Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States

Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 856
Release: 1988
Genre: Finance, Public
ISBN:

Contains a selection of major decisions of the GAO. A digest of all decisions has been issued since Oct. 1989 as: United States. General Accounting Office. Digests of decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Before Oct. 1989, digests of unpublished decisions were issued with various titles.