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MS&E 335: Queueing and Scheduling in Processing Networks

Advanced stochastic modeling and control of systems involving queueing and scheduling operations. Stability analysis of queueing systems. Key results on single queues and queueing networks. Controlled queueing systems. Dynamic routing and scheduling in processing networks. Applications to modeling, analysis and performance engineering of computing systems, communication networks, flexible manufacturing, and service systems. Prerequisite: 221 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Bambos, N. (PI)

MS&E 336: Platform and Marketplace Design

The last decade has witnessed a meteoric rise in the number of online markets and platforms competing with traditional mechanisms of trade. Examples of such markets include online marketplaces for goods, such as eBay; online dating markets; markets for shared resources, such as Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb; and online labor markets. We will review recent research that aims to both understand and design such markets. Emphasis on mathematical modeling and methodology, with a view towards preparing Ph.D. students for research in this area. Prerequisites: Mathematical maturity; 300-level background in optimization and probability; prior exposure to game theory.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Johari, R. (PI)

MS&E 337: Spectral Graph Theory and Algorithmic Applications (CME 337)

Brings students to the forefront of a very active area of research. Reviews classic results relating graph expansion and spectra, random walks, random spanning trees, and their electrical network representation. Covers recent progress on graph sparsification, Kadison-Singer problem and approximation algorithms for traveling salesman problems.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Saberi, A. (PI)

MS&E 338: Advanced Topics in Information Science and Technology

Advanced material in this area is sometimes taught for the first time as a topics course. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Van Roy, B. (PI)

MS&E 347: Credit Risk: Modeling and Management

Credit risk modeling, valuation, and hedging emphasizing underlying economic, probabilistic, and statistical concepts. Point processes and their compensators. Structural, incomplete information and reduced form approaches. Single name products: corporate bonds, equity, equity options, credit and equity default swaps, forwards and swaptions. Multiname modeling: index and tranche swaps and options, collateralized debt obligations. Implementation, calibration and testing of models. Industry and market practice. Data and implementation driven group projects that focus on problems in the financial industry.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Giesecke, K. (PI)

MS&E 348: Optimization of Uncertainty and Applications in Finance

How to make optimal decisions in the presence of uncertainty, solution techniques for large-scale systems resulting from decision problems under uncertainty, and applications in finance. Decision trees, utility, two-stage and multi-stage decision problems, approaches to stochastic programming, model formulation; large-scale systems, Benders and Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition, Monte Carlo sampling and variance reduction techniques, risk management, portfolio optimization, asset-liability management, mortgage finance. Projects involving the practical application of optimization under uncertainty to financial planning.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Infanger, G. (PI)

MS&E 350: Doctoral Seminar in Risk Analysis

Limited to doctoral students. Literature in the fields of engineering risk assessment and management. New methods and topics, emphasizing probabilistic methods and decision analysis. Applications to risk management problems involving the technical, economic, and organizational aspects of engineering system safety. Possible topics: treatment of uncertainties, learning from near misses, and use of expert opinions.
| Repeatable for credit

MS&E 351: Dynamic Programming and Stochastic Control

Markov population decision chains in discrete and continuous time. Risk posture. Present value and Cesaro overtaking optimality. Optimal stopping. Successive approximation, policy improvement, and linear programming methods. Team decisions and stochastic programs; quadratic costs and certainty equivalents. Maximum principle. Controlled diffusions. Examples from inventory, overbooking, options, investment, queues, reliability, quality, capacity, transportation. MATLAB. Prerequisites: MATH 113, 115; Markov chains; linear programming.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: Van Roy, B. (PI)

MS&E 352: Decision Analysis II: Professional Decision Analysis

How to organize the decision conversation, the role of the decision analysis cycle and the model sequence, assessing the quality of decisions, framing decisions, the decision hierarchy, strategy tables for alternative development, creating spare and effective decision diagrams, biases in assessment, knowledge maps, uncertainty about probability. Sensitivity analysis, approximations, value of revelation, joint information, options, flexibility, bidding, assessing and using corporate risk attitude, risk sharing and scaling, and decisions involving health and safety. See 353 for continuation. Prerequisite: 252.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4
Instructors: Howard, R. (PI)

MS&E 353: Decision Analysis III: Frontiers of Decision Analysis

The concept of decision composite; probabilistic insurance and other challenges to the normative approach; the relationship of decision analysis to classical inference and data analysis procedures; the likelihood and exchangeability principles; inference, decision, and experimentation using conjugate distributions; developing a risk attitude based on general properties; alternative decision aiding practices such as analytic hierarchy and fuzzy approaches. Student presentations on current research. Goal is to prepare doctoral students for research. Prerequisite: 352.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Howard, R. (PI)
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