Risk analysis under partial prior information and nonmonotone utility functions

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 625-647

  Utkin, Lev V ^a  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE FOREST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dempster Shafer theory; Nonmonotone utility function; P boxes; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749081474     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219622007002721     Document Type: Article

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