Qualitative decision under uncertainty: Back to expected utility

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 164, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 245-280

  Fargier, Hélène ^a   Sabbadin, Régis ^b  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Decision under uncertainty; Expected utility; Leximax ordering; Leximin ordering; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FUNCTIONS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY CONTROL; SET THEORY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DECISION UNDER UNCERTAINTY; EXPECTED THEORY; EXPECTED UTILITY; LEXIMAX ORDERING; LEXIMIN ORDERING; POSSIBILITY THEORY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 16244390560     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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