U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Mathematically Optimal Solutions to Decision-Making

该奖项将支持俄亥俄州立大学的Prem K.Goel博士和澳大利亚卧龙岗大学的Chandra M.Gulati教授之间的合作研究。本研究旨在为涉及多个决策者的决策问题开发一个数学模型和数学最优解。目标是开发最优决策停止策略，在该策略中，停止决策对参与者的回报大于从继续谈判中获得的效用。该项目代表了澳大利亚世界一流的统计界与Goel在将统计和概率理论应用于现实世界谈判方面的出色合作。这是统计学基础上的重要基础性工作，也有可能在理解和改进团队决策方面取得重大进展。

This award will support collaborative research between Dr. Prem K. Goel of Ohio State University and Professor Chandra M. Gulati, University of Wollongong, Australia. This research is to develop a mathematical model and mathematically optimal solutions to decision making problems involving more than one decision maker. The goal is to develop the optimal decision stopping strategy in which rewards to participants of stopping decision-making outweigh the utility to be achieved from continued negotiation. The project represents excellent collaboration between the world-class statistics community in Australia and the Goel work in applications of statistics and probability theory to real-world negotiations. This is important fundamental work in the foundations of statistics, as well as having potential for major advances in understanding and improving team decision-making.