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Decison Sciences Research Centre

Location:

Manchester

Contact

Prof Jian-Bo Yang
Jian-Bo.Yang@mbs.ac.uk

Homepage:

www.mbs.ac.uk/dsrc

Category (Academic organization or Consultancy):

Academic organization

Founding year:

2003

Number of employees

20

Research foci:

information acquisition, decision modelling and analysis, design of optimisation and decision algorithms, development of decision support tools, behavioural decision analysis, problem structuring and decision facilitation, and to real life applications in all sectors.

Specific methods:

  • Belief networks
  • Communication/facilitation
  • Cost-Benefit Analyses
  • Cost-Effectiveness-Analyses
  • Decision Conferencing
  • Decision trees
  • Influence diagrams
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  • Risk analyses
  • Probability assessment
  • Utility/value assessment
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Simulation
  • System Dynamics' Models
  • Value-focused thinking

Areas:

  • Budgeting & Planning
  • Environmental Risk
  • Product Planning & Development
  • Product and Project Selection
  • Public Procurement
  • R&D
  • Resource Allocation
  • Regulation
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Site Selection
  • Strategy
  • Technology Choice

Prime sector of activity (public, private, both)

both

Industry:

  • Automotive
  • Consumer
  • Energy
  • Government Energy & Environment
  • Health
  • High Tech
  • Non Governmental Organizations
  • Oil & Gas
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