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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Utility Theory"”.
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From Subjective Expected Utility Theory to Bounded Rationality
… categorization, which in the standard economic theory has received until now no attention, and on its implications for decision making. The three experimental studies conducted in this work provide empirical evidence that individuals don not behave according to the perfect rationality and …
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Demand forecasting using Monte Carlo Multi-Attribute Utility Theory
… This thesis demonstrates how Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) can be extended to the group level to forecast future market shares by applying a distribution to the attribute weights and using a Monte Carlo simulation to capture the choices made by a heterogeneous set of decision makers. …
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Fuzzy logic and utility theory for multiobjective optimization of automotive joints
… that accounts for vagueness. Fuzzy sets and utility theory are appropriate tools because they link the vagueness in a problem formulation and the precise nature of mathematical models. Fuzzy multiobjective optimizations are performed on an automotive joint to maximize the overall designer's …
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A Comparison of Multi-Attribute Utility Theory, the Analytic Hierarchy Process, the Analytic Network Process, and New Hybrid Approaches for a Case Study Involving Radon
… decision problem. Even though Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), and the Analytic Network Process (ANP), are all long established theories, their practical applications continue to grow and generate new knowledge. As a case study approach, there …
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Harvesting behavior of perennial cash crops: a decision theoretic study
… and to describe the behavior with decision theory. The first objective was achieved by surveying a sample of 240 farmers. Fear of theft and immediate money needs were the reasons why most farmers harvested their crop at a premature stage. A logit probability model was used to explain this …
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A comparison of multiattribute decision-making techniques using an iterative procedure to derive a convergent criterion
… The five techniques are multiattribute utility theory (MAUT), weighting and rating (WR), the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), concordance analysis (CA), and computation of equivalent alternatives (CEA).
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Theory of Decision Based on Structural Health Monitoring
… In this doctoral thesis, I apply expected utility theory for the development of decision support systems to be used in structural health monitoring and I develop a procedure for the design of structural health monitoring systems that follows the scheme of semi-probabilistic structural …
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Consumers' purchasing behaviour under risk and uncertainty: three essays on food authenticity
… theories of decision making (i.e. Expected Utility Theory and Subjective Expected Utility Theory). In the HGV setting, non-monetary lotteries are used. Participants bid for a high-quality seafood product, but there is a chance (known or unknown) they receive a lower quality seafood product. …
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Controlled and automatic processes in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer
… account of PIT against a propositional expected utility theory, which suggests that PIT effects reflect verbalizable inferences about the probability and value of each outcome. Chapter 1 reviews the relevant literature. Chapters 2-4 then report 11 experiments that aimed to set the S-O-R and …
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Fighting for frames or prospects for peace? : building a prospect theory model of ethnic civil war termination
… side. Recently, scholars have employed expected utility theory and the security dilemma to construct models of how ethnic combatants choose between settling their differences at the bargaining table or on the battlefield. Rooted in the rational choice paradigm, these models draw upon utility …
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The Challenge of Modifying Deviant Behavior: Restructuring Incentives in Renegade Regimes
… the expectations of rational choice and expected-utility theory with prospect theory in the decision calculus of renegade regimes. Finally, this thesis creates a basic model for limited prediction by combining expectations of prospect theory with the incentive offsetting/incentive restructuring …
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The effects of contextual cues on consumers' perceptions of comparative price advertisements
… theories for this study are the adaptation-level theory, the message learning theory, and the transaction utility theory.
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Impediments to Effective Safety Risk Assessment of Safety Critical Systems: An Insight into SRM Processes and Expert Aggregation
… to be inconsistent with the axioms of decision theory. Second, in the safety risk assessment process, when multiple experts are consulted to provide their judgment on the severity and/or likelihood of hazards, the standards were lacking detailed guidelines for aggregating experts' judgements. …
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Player performance evaluation in rugby using Stochastic Multi-Criteria Acceptability Analysis with simplified uncertainty formats
… obtained using full-information multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT), (b) whether a number of 'simplified' SMAA models which make use of summarised measures of uncertainty instead of a full probability distribution might also be suitable in certain contexts, and (c) which characteristics of the …
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Microcomputer programming package for the assessment of multiattribute value functions
Research into multiattribute utility theory far outweighs current attempts to apply findings, while the need for usable decision techniques continues to increase. Current decision maker - analyst procedures involving decision making sessions and numerous manual calculations are considered to be …
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Problem-Independent Regrets on Expectation-Dependent Multi-Armed Bandits
… [50] is the cornerstone of the expected utility theory. However, some empirical experiments show that the IA is often violated in the real world. We propose a new kind of multi-armed bandit problem where the expectation of outcomes may influence the agent’s utility which we call …
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Essays on Futures Trading Under Non-Standard Assumptions
… models and contrast them to the standard utility model in futures markets. Specifically the rationality assumption is relaxed and more reasonable assumptions about agents' decision context are considered in three studies on the behavior of hedgers and traders. Hedging behavior in futures …
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Merchant differentiation through integrative negotiation in agent-mediated electronic commerce
… support module (based on multi-attribute utility theory), create an improved online shopping environment for both consumers and merchants. Consumers gain increased satisfaction as their search costs for complex products are reduced and merchants potentially increase sales as a result of …
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A trade space model for robotic lunar exploration
… value model was developed, using Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT), to estimate the effectiveness of a spacecraft design towards assessing a set of specified science objectives. An engineering model was developed to estimate the masses of spacecraft designs within the trade space. These models …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
… preferences and try to maximize the expected utility when facing risky decision-making problems, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies that help us explore the factors that influence economic preferences and risky decision-making process. This dissertation consists …
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