Hierarchical solution concept for static and multistage decision problems with two objectives
This paper presents a critical view on the use of optimization models in production environment. Distributed decision process based on the concepts of autonomous agents is introduced in the framework of a deterministic optimization model. The modeling problems and the underlying theoretical background are briefly discussed.
This paper deals with two ways in which uncertainty notions enter social science models: 1) They can be used in an effort to make intelligible some phenomena that would otherwise be difficult to comprehend, or 2) They can be use to generalize or modify the domain of validity of some theoretical results.
In Possibilistic Decision Theory (PDT), decisions are ranked by a pressimistic or by an optimistic qualitative criteria. The preference relations induced by these criteria have been axiomatized by corresponding sets of rationality postulates, both à la von Neumann and Morgenstern and à la Savage. In this paper we first address a particular issue regarding the axiomatic systems of PDT à la von Neumann and Morgenstern. Namely, we show how to adapt the axiomatic systems for the pessimistic and optimistic...
Measuring criteria weights in multicriteria decision making is a key issue in order to amalgamate information when reality is being described from several different points of view. In this paper we propose a method for evaluating those weights taking advantage of Dimension Theory, which allows the representation of the set of alternatives within a real space, provided that decision maker preferences satisfy certain consistency conditions. Such a representation allows a first information about possible...
L'évaluation multicritère est un problème bien connu souvent traité par des méthodes de surclassement. Nous avons ici envisagé le cas général de plusieurs juges et agrégé les différentes évaluations pour construire une matrice de préférences, ramenant ainsi le problème à un problème de comparaisons par paires. Nous avons cherché des solutions optimales de classement en appliquant un algorithme d'affectation quadratique particulier.
Schwartz (1990) proposed a new solution concept for choosing from a tournament ; called the Tournament Equilibrium Set. He stated four problems concerning this solution. In this paper we introduce further questions and demonstrate some logical relationship between these questions.
We consider the multi-attribute decision making problem with incomplete information on the decision maker's preferences, given by an imprecise vector utility function. We introduce an approximation set to the utility efficient set which may be used to aid a decision maker in reaching a final compromise strategy. We provide sorne properties and an interactive procedure based on such approximation set.
We present an alternative approach to decision-making in the framework of possibility theory, based on the idea of decision-making under uncertainty. We utilize the fact, that any possibility distribution can be viewed as an upper envelope of a set of probability distributions to which well-known minimax principle is applicable. Finally, we recall also an alternative to the minimax rule, so-called local minimax principle. Local minimax principle not only allows sequential construction of decision...