Policy equilibrium and generalized metarationalities for multiple decision-maker conflicts

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 456-463

  Zeng, Dao Zhi ^a,b   Fang, Liping ^c   Hipel, Keith W ^d   Kilgour, D Marc ^e  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflict; Graph model for conflict resolution; Metarational tree; Multiple decision makers (DMs); Policy analysis; Policy equilibrium

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GRAPHIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

METARATIONAL TREE; POLICY EQUILIBRIUM;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 34347389891     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2007.897704     Document Type: Article

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