OR Forum—Perspectives on Utility Theory
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Utility Theory
Much of this is taken from Luce and Raiffa’s book and G. Owen’s book and this should be thought of as an extract from these references. Decision making is classified into four types based on who makes the decision (i)individual; (ii)group and on under what conditions it is made: (a)certainty;(b)risk; (c)uncertainty; or (d) combination of (b) and (c). Regardless of whether the decision is made b...
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Miners [34, 26]. You are standing in front of two mine shafts (A and B). Flood waters are approaching. You know that ten miners are in one of the shafts, but you don’t know which (e.g., their location was determined by the result of a fair coin toss). You have enough sand bags to block one of the shafts. If the miners are in A, then blocking A saves all 10 miners (and, hence, minimizes disutili...
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عنوان ژورنال: Operations Research
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0030-364X,1526-5463
DOI: 10.1287/opre.34.1.179