IEEE

Nonconvex Regularization for Markov Decision Processes: Modeling and Algorithms

Abstract: This paper investigates efficient algorithm for Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) through Linear programming (LP). Generally, solving large-scale MDPs via standard LP solvers faces ...
BMJ Global Health

Transitions in women’s experience of physical domestic violence during 2001–2020 and related risk and protective factors: the MINIMat longitudinal cohort study in rur…

Introduction Repeated exposure to domestic violence (DV) is common among women; however, little is known about how women’s ...
Harvard Business Review

Great Leaders Empower Strategic Decision-Making Across the Organization

Many leaders who excel early in their careers eventually become the very reason their organizations stall. The individualistic traits that once fueled their success, like solving problems through ...
CNN

Today’s college admissions process isn’t just convoluted. It’s cruel

EDITOR’S NOTE: Mary Frances Ruskell graduated in May from her high school in Columbia, South Carolina. The first round of admissions decisions for Clemson University came out on a December evening, ...
Reuters

Top US colleges sued in class action over ‘early decision’ admissions

Aug 8 (Reuters) - Columbia University, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and 29 other elite U.S. colleges and universities were accused on Friday in a proposed class action of conspiring ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Antitrust Lawsuit Challenges Early-Decision Programs

Four current and former college students have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that 32 highly selective private institutions’ use of early decision in admissions violates federal antitrust law.
Smart Business Magazine

Triggers in the decision-making process

What’s your trigger? I’m not talking about what someone may say that sets you off. Instead, I’m referring to the trigger that sparks an impulse to potentially make a purchase. Interestingly, both ...
News Medical

New model reveals how the brain processes sensory cues during decision making

A new mathematical model sheds light on how the brain processes different cues, such as sights and sounds, during decision making. The findings from Princeton neuroscientists may one day improve how ...
IEEE

Using Markov Decision Process Model for Sustainability Assessment in Industry 4.0

Abstract: The manufacturing industry is facing increasing challenges to improve sustainability performance by using Industry 4.0 technologies like big data analytics, the internet of things, and ...
Forbes

Revealing Secrets Of Large Language Models And Generative AI Via Markov Chain Mathematics

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely examine an innovative way of ...
Forbes

New Study: 49% Of Companies Have Stagnant Decision Styles – Can Technology Help?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the decision intelligence revolution. Aug 20, 2024, 10:26am EDT New research finds that over half of companies ...