Formulating generalised 'goal games' against nature: An illustration from decision-making under uncertainty in agriculture

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 486-496

  Rehman, Tahir ^a   Romero, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Technical University of Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Decision analysis; Games against nature; Goal programming; Satisficing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL-DECISION-MAKING; GAMES-AGAINST-NATURE; GOAL PROGRAMMING; SATISFICING; UNCERTAINTY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33644922703     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.07.026     Document Type: Article

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