| Week 1 | August 14, 2008 | Introduction and administration. | Handout 1 (Preliminary Concepts and Notation) |
| Week 2 | August 21, 2008 | Optimization and decision making | Slides Ref: Winston, Chapter 3, sections 1 and 2; Chapter 6, sections 5, 6 and 7; Chapter 12, sections 8 and 9. |
| Week 3 | August 28, 2008 | Support Vector Machine and Multisurface method | Slides Ref: Haykin, Chapter 6. |
| Week 4 | September 4, 2008 | Neural networks for decision making (Part 1) | Slides Ref: Mitchell, Chapter 4. Also Haykin, Chapter 4. |
| Week 5 | September 11, 2008 | Neural networks for decision making (Part 2) | Slides Ref: Mitchell, Chapter 4. Also Haykin, Chapter 4. |
| Week 6 | September 17, 2008 | Neural networks rule extraction | |
| Recess Week | September 25, 2008 | No lecture | Mid-semester break |
| Week 7 | October 2, 2008 | Midterm Exam (Open book, bring calculator) | Past year exams |
| Week 8 | October 9, 2008 | Decision making with decision trees and rules | Slides Ref: Mitchell, Chapter 9 |
| Week 9 | October 16, 2008 | Genetic algorithm for decision making | Slides Ref: Mitchell, Chapter 9 |
| Week 10 | October 23, 2008 | Decision making under uncertainty | Slides Ref: Winston, Chapter 13 |
| Week 11 | October 30, 2008 | Decision making with multiple objectives |
Slides
Ref: Winston, Chapter 14. |
| Week 12 | November 6, 2008 | Clustering techniques for decision making | Week 13 | November 13, 2008 | Course wrap-up | Week 14 | November 20, 2008 | Reading week |
| Week 15 | November 27, 2008 | Final exam (Open book, bring calculator) | Past year exams |