Info-Gap Analysis of Risk and Reliability

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Syllabus, course outline and project guidelines

Upcoming Lectures

(Links to lecture note files are further down on this page)

Each lecture lists sources, where IDGT refers to the book Info-Gap Decision Theory by Yakov Ben-Haim.

Lecture. Lecture notes on Info-Gap Uncertainty, pp.2-12, 15-19. Source: IGDT, sections 2.1-2.3.

Lecture.  Lecture notes on Conservation Management, or, Robustness, Expected Utility and the Sumatran Rhinoceros. Source: Helen M.Regan, Yakov Ben-Haim, Bill Landford, Will G.Wilson, Per Lundberg, Sandy J.Andelman and Mark A.Burgman, 2005, Robust decision making under severe uncertainty for conservation management, Ecological Applications, vol.15(4): 1471-1477.

Lectures. Lecture notes on Info-Gap Estimation and Forecasting. Sources: Yakov Ben-Haim, 2005, Info-gap Decision Theory For Engineering Design. Or: Why ‘Good’ is Preferable to ‘Best’, appearing as chapter 11 in Engineering Design Reliability Handbook, Edited by Efstratios Nikolaidis, Dan M.Ghiocel and Surendra Singhal, CRC Press, Boca Raton.

  • Estimation of slope with uncertain data: fractional-error parameter uncertainty, pp.3-10. Related source: Yakov Ben-Haim, Info-Gap Economics, section 6.1
  • Model estimation with Fourier-ellipsoid functional uncertainty, pp. 11-13.
  • Model estimation with uncertain transient disturbances, pp. 14-15.
  • (System identification, pp.16-29.)
  • Tychonov regularization, pp.30-36.
  • Estimating a pdf from data, pp.37-41. Source: IGDT section 3.2.13.
  • Forecasting with an uncertain linear system, pp.42-49. Source: Yakov Ben-Haim, 2008, Info-gap forecasting and the advantage of sub-optimal models, European Journal of Operational Research, 197: 203-213.

Lecture.  Lecture notes on robustness and opportuneness:

  • Portfolio-like investments, pp.49-56. Source: IGDT section 3.2.7.
  • Search and evasion, pp.57-59. Source: IGDT section 3.2.9.
  • Military effectiveness: Net assessment with WEI-WUV, pp.75-78. Source:  Ben-Haim, Military Operations Research, 23(4): 37-49.
  • Behavioral response to feedback, pp.92-100.

Lecture. Lecture notes on Info-Gap Uncertainty: Why uncertainty models are convex, pp.26-28. Source: IGDT section 2.4.

Lecture. Lecture notes on the Optimizer’s Curse.

Lecture. Lecture notes on Robust-Satisficing Behavior. Source: IGDT chapter 11.

  • Ellsberg’s paradox, pp. 4-8. Source: IGDT section 11.1.
  • Allais paradox, pp.9-14. Source: IGDT section 11.2.
  • Info-gap analysis of expected-utility risk aversion, pp.16-19. Source: IGDT section 11.3.
  • Info-gap robust-satisficing foraging, pp.20-23.
  • Is Bin Laden at Abbottabad? pp.41-47.

Lectures. Lecture notes on robustness and opportuneness:

  • Assay design, pp.61-67. Source: IGDT section 3.2.10.
  • Vibrating cantilever, pp.29-37.
  • Strategic asset allocation, pp.68-74.
  • Monitoring health and safety, pp, 102-108.

Lecture. Lecture notes of value judgments in risk assessment, pp.2-29.

Lecture. Lecture notes on info-gap learning. pp.2-23.

Lecture. Lectures notes on project management with duration uncertainty.

Lecture. Lecture notes on hybrid uncertainties, pp.2-28.

Lecture. Equity premium puzzle.

Lecture. Lecture notes on Strategic Interactions: Games with Uncertain Preferences, pp.2-19.

Recordings of Lectures and Exercise Sessions from Winter 2020

Lecture Notes

Performance vs. Robustness of a Cantilever

Info-Gap Uncertainty

Robustness and opportuneness

Project management with duration uncertainty

Info-gap estimation and forecasting

Value judgment in risk assessment

Hybrid uncertainty

Robust-Satisficing Behavior

Games with Uncertain Preferences

Conservation management, or, robustness, expected utility and the Sumatran rhinoceros

Info-gap learning

Equity premium puzzle

Gambling and Risk-Sensitivity

Optimizer’s Curse

Homework

Homework problems on Robustness and Opportuneness

Homework problems on Info-Gap Uncertainty

Exercise 1: (1) Problem 9 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

(2) Problem 10 a, b from the file “Homework problems on info-gap uncertainty”.

Exercise 2: (1) Problem 4 a-d from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

(2) Problem 32 a-d from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 3:  Problems 31 and 38 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 4:  Problem 43 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 5:  Problems 88 (a), and then 70 (a)-(e), from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 6:  Problem 66 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 7:  Problem 92 (a)-(d) from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 8:  Problems 59 (a)-(f) and 53 (a)-(f) from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 9:  Problems 100 and 101 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 10:  Problem 90 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 11:  Problems 47 (b) and 61 (a)-(f) from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 12: Problem 30 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.

Exercise 13: Problem 55 from the file “Homework problems on robustness and opportuneness”.