A general approach to decision making with interval probabilities

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 623-647

  Engemann, Kurt J ^a,b   Yager, Ronald R ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Lona College   (United States)

^c MACHINE INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d IEEE

^e Fuzzy Systems Association   (United States)

^f NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief function; Decision analysis; Decision maker's optimism; Effective probability; Entropy; Interval probability; Ordered weighted averaging operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009659544     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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