Axiomatic characterization of a general utility function and its particular cases in terms of conjoint measurement and rough-set decision rules

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-292

  Greco, Salvatore ^a   Matarazzo, Benedetto ^a   Słowiński, Roman ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Axiomatization; Conjoint measurement; Decision rules; Multiple criteria decision making; Preference modeling; Utility function

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SET THEORY;

AXIOMATIZATION; CONJOINT MEASUREMENT; DECISION RULES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PREFERENCE MODELING; UTILITY FUNCTION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 2642582420     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.06.004     Document Type: Article

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