IE 598

Spring 2012 All Classes

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in industrial engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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IE 598 class schedule data for spring 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	53155	Lecture-Discussion	NK	2:00PM -3:40PM	TR	203 Transportation Building	Kiyavash, N	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/12-05/02/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Info Theory for Operations Res Section Info: Information Theory for Operations Research. This course provides an introduction to information-theoretic approaches to addressing problems in operations research, with a focus on universal schemes for decision (or prediction), gambling, and portfolio selection. Application of such approaches are in aggregation of expert opinions where the expert opinions concern the prediction of the outcome of an uncertain event, universal schemes for sequential investment in stock market, etc. Apart from students in IESE, this course would be of interest to students from math, ECE, computer science, economics, and finance. No prior background in information theory is necessary. Prerequisites: One of MATH 464, MATH 564, ECE 534 or consent of instructor.