SYDE 680Department of Systems Design
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1974–75
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1974–75 to 1974–75 (before that, 1970–71 to 1971–72 used the number for Introduction to Decision, Value and Utility Theories); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The scanned calendars list it without a description; see each year below.
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1970–71 to 1974–75, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1974–75 1 calendar
Not in the 1972–73 to 1973–74 calendars.
1970–71 to 1971–72 2 calendars
Another title: Introduction to Decision, Value and Utility Theories, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Problems of decisions, values and utility, basic models, decision-making to an individual, to a statistician, in cetainty, risk and uncertainty. Models for preference analysis, utility theories, dominance in strategies. Classical and Bayesian statistical decision theory. Sequential and Markovian decision making problems. Decision-making in games.