This is a chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, Paul Anand, Prasanta Pattanaik, and Clemens Puppe, eds., Oxford University Press, 2008. We review classic normative expected utility theory. Our goal is to frame the subsequent chapters (which consider more modern extensions to and deviations from this classic theory) in a way that is accessible to the nonspecialist b...

When evaluating of the senior manager’s performance is based on the achieving to budget and they have responsibility to report the capacity of resources which are in their part too; it is possible to create budget slack and effect on their performance evaluation by providing pessimistic and conservatively estimates or manipulated information of income and expenses. So, Senior Manager and Budget...

in this paper, a new approach based on game theory has been proposed to multi responses problem optimization. game theory is a useful tool for decision making in the conflict of interests between intelligent players in order to select the best joint strategy for them through selecting the best joint desirability. present research uses the game theory approach via definition of each response as ...

The purpose of This research is to generate incentives based on performance assessment, which creates a good and transparent village government. Therefore, the awarding appraisal, in such assessment required decision support System (SPK) that can take into account all criteria help facilitate making process. By Implementing method multy Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) with have been applied the...

Recently, a new "intersection" method for multi-objective optimization was developed in the points of view set theory and probability theory, which introduces idea favorable to reflect degree utility performance indicator optimization, product all partial probabilities entire utilities indicators makes overall / total candidate. Here, this paper, algorithm is combined effectively with response ...

The theory and technology of cloud computing have been widely adopted by many small and medium enterprises and individuals for their business systems or personal affairs. To facilitate the evaluation processes of cloud service creditability, the present paper proposed a new multi-attribute evaluation theory. In addition, a utility and collaborative filtering-based evaluation method was presente...

We begin this paper by first comparing the theory of present-day portfolio selection, which is a theory for standard investors (whose utility functions take on only the single argument of portfolio return), with a developing theory for non-standard investors (whose utility functions are allowed to take on additional arguments). Examples of additional arguments are dividends, liquidity, social r...