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University of California, Irvine

Location:

Irvine, CA USA

Contact

L. Robin Keller (Merage), Don Saari (IMBS) http://www.imbs.uci.edu/
Lrkeller@uci.edu

Homepage:

http://web.merage.uci.edu/~keller/

Category (Academic organization or Consultancy):

Academic organization

Founding year:

Number of employees

Research foci:

Merage School of Business, Operations and Decision Technologies area: decision analysis, risk analysis, behavioral decision theory, game theory, math programming, stochastic models Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences: individual decision making, foundations of measurement, game theory, visual perception

Specific methods:

  • Decision trees
  • Dynamic programming
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
  • Risk analyses
  • Probability assessment
  • Utility/value assessment
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Simulation
  • Value-focused thinking
  • Behavioral Decision Theory with experiments/surveys; retrospective case studies

Areas:

  • Budgeting & Planning
  • Environmental Risk
  • Mergers and Restructurings
  • Product and Project Selection
  • R&D
  • Resource Allocation

Prime sector of activity (public, private, both)

public

Industry:

  • Government Energy & Environment
  • Government IT & Infrastructure
  • Health
  • Homeland Security
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Regional Government
  • pro bono advice to National Academy committees
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