Category Archives: Decision Making

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Infrastructure Asset Management

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) position within the Risk-Informed Lifecycle Infrastructure Engineering (RILCIE) research group led by Prof. Arnold Yuan at the Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly … Continue reading

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CV8107 Infrastructure Asset Management

Dr. Arnold Yuan is going to offer a new graduate course titled ‘Infrastructure Asset Management’ in Fall 2015.  The course materials will be delivered on the new learning and teaching system D2L, instead of Blackboard, which is being phased out … Continue reading

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Why Expected Value?

Decision making under uncertainty is a hard subject.  It is hard because there is no single criterion that is universally accepted by decision makers.  For example, when the probability of the ‘state’ of the world is hard to evaluate, a … Continue reading

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