Decision making with hybrid influence diagrams using mixtures of truncated exponentials

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 261-275

  Cobb, Barry R ^a   Shenoy, Prakash P ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied probability; Decision analysis; Influence diagrams; MTE potentials

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECISION THEORY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DECISION NODES; INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS; TRUNCATED EXPONENTIALS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 35349010084     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.01.036     Document Type: Article

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