Moshe Sniedovich

Wald's mighty maximin: a tutorial

Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2016  |  INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

Ever since its appearance on the scene in the 1940s, in the then nascent field of statistical decision theory, Wald's maximin para..

Eureka! bellman’s principle of optimality is valid!

M Sniedovich

Book Chapter  |  2016  |  International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Ever since Bellman formulated his Principle of Optimality in the early 1950s, the Principle has been the subject of considerable c..

From Statistical Decision Theory to Robust Optimization: A Maximin Perspective on Robust Decision-Making

Moshe Sniedovich

Book Chapter  |  2016  |  International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

As attested by the prevalence of worst-case-based robustness analysis in many fields, Wald’s maximin paradigm (circa 1940) plays a..

Response to Burgman and Regan: The elephant in the rhetoric on info-gap decision theory

Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2014  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The formal, rigorous assessment of IGDT in Sniedovich (2012) reveals that this theory's central pillar, namely its robustness mode..

From local robustness to irresponsible decision-making

M Sniedovich

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  XI Balkan Conference on Operational Research

THE MANY FACES OF WORST-CASE ANALYSIS

M Sniedovich

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  XL symposium on operational research

Fooled by Local Robustness

Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2012  |  RISK ANALYSIS

One would have expected the considerable public debate created by Nassim Taleb's two best selling books on uncertainty, Fooled by ..

Fooled by local robustness: an applied ecology perspective

Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2012  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

In this short discussion, we point out that it is apparently as easy to be fooled by robustness as it is to be fooled by randomnes..

Black Swans, New Nostradamuses, Voodoo decision theories, and the science of decision making in the face of severe uncertainty

Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2012  |  INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH

The recent global financial crisis, natural disasters, and ongoing debate on global warming and climate change are a stark reminde..

Applying the corridor method to a blocks relocation problem

Marco Caserta, Stefan Voss, Moshe Sniedovich

Journal article  |  2011  |  OR SPECTRUM

In this paper, we present a corridor method inspired algorithm for a blocks relocation problem in block stacking systems. Typical ..