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Part I - Foundations of Preference, Value, and Utility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Ali E. Abbas
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University of Southern California
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Howard, R. A. and Abbas, A. E.. 2015. Foundations of Decision Analysis. Prentice Hall, New York.Google Scholar
von Neumann, J. and Morgenstern, O.. 1944. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar

Additional Readings

Abbas, A. E. 2010. Constructing multiattribute utility functions for decision analysis. In Hasenbein, J. J., ed. TutORials in Operations Research, Vol. 7. INFORMS, Hanover, MD, pp. 6298.Google Scholar
Howard, R. A. 1992. In praise of the old time religion. In Edwards, W., ed. Utility Theories: Measurements and Applications. Kluwer, Boston, MA, pp. 2755.Google Scholar
Keeney, R. and Raiffa, H.. 1976. Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Tradeoffs. John Wiley, New York. Reprinted, Cambridge University Press, New York (1993).Google Scholar
Matheson, J. E. and Abbas, A. E.. 2005. Utility transversality: A value-based approach. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 13(5–6): 229238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matheson, J. E. and Howard, R. A.. 1968. An introduction to decision analysis. In Howard, R. A. and Matheson, J. E., eds. The Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis, Vol. I. Strategic Decisions Group, Menlo Park, CA.Google Scholar

References and Additional Readings

Abbas, A. E. 2010. Constructing multiattribute utility functions for decision analysis. In Hasenbein, J. J., ed. TutORials in Operations Research, Vol. 7. INFORMS, Hanover, MD, pp. 6298.Google Scholar
Howard, R. A. 1992. In praise of the old time religion. In Edwards, W., ed. Utility Theories: Measurements and Applications. Kluwer, Boston, pp. 2755.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howard, R. A. and Abbas, A. E.. 2015. Foundations of Decision Analysis. Prentice Hall, New York.Google Scholar
Matheson, J. E and Abbas, A. E.. 2005. Utility transversality: A value-based approach. Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis 13(5–6): 229238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matheson, J. E. and Howard, R. A.. 1968. An introduction to decision analysis. In Howard, R. A. and Matheson, J. E., eds. The Principles and Applications of Decision Analysis, Vol. I. Strategic Decisions Group, Menlo Park, CA.Google Scholar
von Neumann, J. and Morgenstern, O.. 1944. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar

References

Abbas, A. E. 2015. Perspectives on some widely used methods of multi-objective decision making in systems engineering. Proceedings of the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, S. Cetinkaya and J. K. Ryan, eds.Google Scholar
Dyer, J. 1990. Remarks on the analytic hierarchy process. Management Science 36(3): 249258.Google Scholar
Howard, R. A. and Abbas, A. E.. 2015. Foundations of Decision Analysis. Prentice Hall, New York.Google Scholar
Saari, D. 2001. Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Saaty, T. 1990. How to make a decision: The analytic hierarchy process. European Journal of Operational Research 48: 926.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Savage, L. 1951. The theory of statistical decision. Journal of the American Statistical Association 46: 5567.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Savage, L. 1972. The Foundations of Statistics. Dover Publications, New York.Google Scholar
Sun, Z. and Abbas, A. E. 2013. Bayesian updating on price elasticity of uncertain demand. IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 222228.Google Scholar
Traverso, M. G. and Abbas, A. E. 2009. Demand curve prediction via Bayesian probability assignment over a functional space. Winter Simulation Conference, 29712976.Google Scholar

Additional Readings

Howard, R. A. 1992. In praise of the old time religion. In Edwards, W., ed. Utility Theories: Measurements and Applications. Kluwer, Boston, pp. 2755.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
von Neumann, J. and Morgenstern, O.. 1944. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.Google Scholar

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