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TID.
DECISION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.
This program focuses on decision making processes, covering from a
multidisciplinary perspective any mathematical model explaining
every step. Here, a decision process is understood in the widest
sense, ranging from social to individual decision making and
considering both subjective and technical aspects of the process,
including modelization, analytic, predictive or strategic approaches,
and also numerical, logical or instrumental techniques. Furthermore,
in our approach an individual may be meant a whole organisation.
Taking into account the obvious increase of the vulgarisation of the
research on related topics like Statistics, Operational Research,
Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics or Computer Science in
the last 20 years, it should be noted that the development of such
mathematical disciplines has been accompanied with a relevant
advance in other technological, social or human areas. It must be
noted that the presence and perception of the mathematics and their
professionals in the society is very good. Society knows the power
of mathematical research because the use of new technologies for the
management of information and the urgent need of solutions for the
problems of search and analysis of a frequently excessive amount of
information -which will not produce any knowledge until properly
arranged- that our society is facing. Thus, mathematics for
information and decision making technologies are a potential social
and economic stimulus for any field of any technological advanced
society.
A first set of objectives deals with problems of preference and
knowledge representation at the presence different types of risk. A
second set faces the solution of a decision making process taking
into account the representations previously considered.
Thirdly, we aim the general problems of development and optimization
of algorithms -considering all the laying computational problems-
for the search of these solutions. A fourth block is the design and
-with special emphasis on validation problems- of software. The
progress on these four blocks will produce publications in first
rate journals and in proceedings of first class conferences; this is
already a usual practice of all groups involved in our program, all
of them enjoying external funding and international recognition. The
fifth block is the application to concrete problems and the
transference of the acquired knowledge to the industry, what will
require the collaboration of external public and private
institutions. Finally, a sixth block will emphasize the
popularization at all educational levels with the creation of all
kind of learning materials and helping to the formation of future
university students. The curricula of the researchers of our group
show the need of wide mathematical education and permanent
communication with applied disciplines.
At a first step we will promote the professional training program of
the University with periodical meetings with our previous contacts
with business firms. We propose to open the program with
presentation meeting for previous academic and business contacts and
to launch a home page to attract new internal and external
collaborators.
The program requires some extra funding to invite professors and
professionals from other institutions and to organize internal and
external meetings with other research groups and business firms.
Keywords: Knowledge representation, Decision Making Theory,
Bayesian methods, Multicriteria Decision, Multi-Criteria decision,
Fuzzy Risk, Algorithmic Complexity, Computational Algebra, Software
Design, Formal Software Analysis.
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