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Mission Statement

To promote the economic and social welfare of societies - the United Kingdom in particular - through the design, implementation, and validation of tools for decision science and quantitative analysis of dynamical systems.

Research Summary

The QUADS section integrates efforts in algorithm and software design to offer state-of-the-art quantitative and decision analysis methodology for a wide range of dynamical systems in defence, engineering, economics, finance, infrastructure planning, energy, and environment and earth & life sciences. This integration is achieved through the creation of novel algorithmic and semantic foundations and their transfer into frameworks and tools for quantitative analysis and decision systems. Research topics include datamining & knowledge discovery, games, optimisation, uncertainty, risk & safety, and security & information flow. The section is involved in collaborative and interdisciplinary projects in grid-based informatics, as well as stochastic and robust optimisation within the context of uncertainty and risk.