0309-1708/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.02.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 2317; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Mad Lund). 1 Tel.: +1 530 752 5671; fax: +1 530 752 7872. Game theory provides a useful framework for studying Multi-Criteria Decision Making problems. This paper suggests modeling Multi-Criteria Decision Making probl...

This paper surveys decision support models that are commonly used in the solid waste management area. Most models are mainly developed within three decision support frameworks, which are the life-cycle assessment, the cost-benefit analysis and the multi-criteria decision-making. These frameworks are reviewed and their strengths and weaknesses as well as their critical issues are analyzed, while...

Acknowledging the social functions that emotions serve, there has been growing interest in the interpersonal effect of emotion in human decision making. Following the paradigm of experimental games from social psychology and experimental economics, we explore the interpersonal effect of emotions expressed by embodied agents on human decision making. The paper describes an experiment where parti...

Cooperative multi-agent decision-making is a ubiquitous problem with many real-world applications. In practical applications, it desirable to design team heterogeneous composition where the agents can have different capabilities and levels of risk tolerance address diverse requirements. While heterogeneity in teams offers benefits, new challenges arise including how find optimal compositions dy...

We consider multiagent cooperative decision in stochastic environments, and focus on online decision during which agents communicate. We generalize partial evaluation from a specific application to a class of collaborative decision networks (CDNs), and propose a distributed decision algorithm based on partial evaluation. We show that when agents have private decision variables, the new algorith...