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GBUS 890 Management Decision Models
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DARDEN USER'S GUIDES RELATED TO CRYSTAL BALL

Correlations in Crystal Ball (pdf)

Using Optquest (pdf)

OPTQUEST MANUAL

Version 1.3 Optquest manual

REAL OPTIONS

Real Options Software and Multimedia Link

TREEPLAN

Decision Support Services provides Tree Plan for Excel, a decision tree add-in for Microsoft Excel 4, 5, 7, and 97 for Windows and Macintosh. Tree Plan for Excel helps you build decision tree diagrams in Excel worksheet using dialog boxes. The decision trees include formulas for summing cash flows to obtain outcome values and for calculating rollback values for determining optimal strategy.  Note that to use risk preference with Treeplan, you must choose "Use Exponential Utility" in the Options dialog box (which comes up in the dialog window in Excel when you hit SHIFT-CTRL-T), and you must place a risk tolerance number in a cell that has a range name RT.

UTILITY ASSESSMENT

ASSESS is an Interactive Program for Utility Assessment from Philippe Delquié of Insead.  Click here to download <ASSESSinstall.zip>, a zip file containing ASSESS for Windows. After downloading, extract all files to a temporary folder and run Setup.exe. 
 

DATA

Decision Analysis by Tree Age (DATA) is a stand-alone product for decision analysis.  It handles decision trees, influence diagrams, Bayesian probability, and simple multiattribute analysis.

Decision Analysis by TreeAge Software, Inc. (DATA)

 

GeNIe

GeNIe is a development environment for building graphical decision-theoretic models. It is Graphical Network Interface, capable of drawing and evaluating influence diagrams and Bayesian networks.  It is available to the community for non-commercial research and teaching use in order to promote decision-theoretic methods in decision support systems.

HIPRE

Web-HIPRE is a web-version of the HIPRE 3+ software for decision analytic problem structuring, multicriteria evaluation and prioritization.  It has a nice graphic interface for simple multiattribute decision problems.  You can analyze your problems directly via the web and save your data.  http://www.hipre.hut.fi/

INSIGHT

Insight.xla is a collection of spreadsheet add-ins for doing basic analytical modeling.

Insight.xla - Software for Monte Carlo Simulation, Optimization and Forecasting

 

SPREADSHEETS for Strategic Decision Making, by Craig W. Kirkwood, Duxbury Press, 1997  

Strategic Decision Making Spreadsheets

PALISADE

Palisade is the source for @Risk, TopRank, and Precision Tree software and books for risk analysis, decision analysis, forecasting, optimization, data analysis, and more.

http://www.palisade.com/