Séminaire: «Policy Analytics: a challenge for Decision Analysis and Operational Research»

Séminaire E2G

In this talk we try to introduce and explain the concept of Policy Analytics: aiding to decide in designing, implementing and assessing public policies. More precisely we show what is specific in decision support within a policy cycle and how this impacts the way decision aiding processes should be conceived and conducted. We then analyse what type of challenges such a framework introduces for Decision Theory and Operational Research. The talk will use a number of examples ranging from classical OR problems (location analysis) to more complex decision situations (energy scenarions construction or participative structures design) in order to support our basic claim: the need to expand our toolkit and at the same time the need to enhance our general methodology.

Le GÉRAD est un centre de recherche inter-universitaire créé en 1979 et regroupant près de soixante spécialistes de méthodes quantitatives en gestion, chercheurs opérationnels, informaticiens théoriques, mathématiciens et ingénieurs mathématiciens, principalement issus de HEC Montréal, l'École Polytechnique, l'Université McGill et l'Université du Québec à Montréal.