Making Rational Decisions using Adaptive Utility Elicitation

Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 363-369

  Chajewska, Urszula ^a   Koller, Daphne ^a   Parr, Ronald ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; RATIONAL FUNCTIONS;

'CURRENT; DECISION PROBLEMS; EXPECTED UTILITY; NEW APPROACHES; PRIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS; RATIONAL DECISION MAKING; UTILITY ELICITATIONS; UTILITY FUNCTIONS; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 85158134596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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