Great expectations. Part II: Generalized expected utility as a universal decision rule

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 207-229

  Chu, Francis C ^a   Halpern, Joseph Y ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Decision rules; Decision theory; Maximizing expectation; Plausibility measures

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

DECISION MAKERS (DM); DECISION RULES; MAXIMIZING EXPECTATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 4644307094     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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