The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences is a leader in the science of decision-making in complex environments through innovation in algorithms, computation, and mathematical ...

After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...

Using a decision tree classifier from a machine learning library is often awkward because it usually must be customized and library decision trees have many complex supporting functions, says resident ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

Writing an all-encompassing book on Python machine learning is difficult, given how expansive the field is. But reviewing one is not an easy feat either, especially when it’s a highly acclaimed title ...

Even as machine learning and artificial intelligence are drawing substantial attention in health care, overzealousness for these technologies has created an environment in which other critical aspects ...