0 the study of how to make decisions based on the information you have and on judging what risks, changes, etc. are likely in the future:
The Decision Sciences Manager will be responsible for driving key development activities associated with our digital practice.
They created a discipline called "decision science" which aimed to take the human element out of risk analysis.
Kimberly Thompson is an associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at Harvard.
He received a PhD in decision sciences from the University of Florida.
Decision science's heyday may have been the Vietnam war when Robert McNamara, then America's defence secretary, used such techniques to forecast the outcome of the conflict (though, as it turned out, without much success).
Carmen Rodriguez will graduate in May with a degree in information sciences and decision sciences, or ISDS.
