In the context of decision making under uncertainty, I formalize the concept of analogy: an Analogy between two decision problems is a mapping that transforms one problem into the other while preserving the problem’s structure. After identifying the basic structure of a decision problem, I introduce the concepts of Analogical Reasoning Operator and of Analogical Reasoning Preference. The former...

This paper investigates whether the choice experiment approach can be used to assess peoples’ preferences and the determinants of these preferences in order to estimate the costs and benefits of different configurations of transports of hazardous materials on railways. In the study, changes in the exposure to hazardous materials that affected people are subjected to are used rather than changes...

INTRODUCTION To explore how adaptive choice-based conjoint (ACBC) analysis could contribute to shared decision-making in the treatment of individual patients with osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS In-depth case study of three individuals randomly selected from patients with OA participating in an ACBC analysis exercise. Eleven members of a research users' group participated in developing an ACBC t...

In Web Service Composition (WSC) problems, the composition process generates a composition (i.e., a plan) of atomic services, whose execution achieves some objectives on the Web. Existing research on Web service composition generally assumed that these objectives are absolute; i.e., the servicecomposition algorithms must achieve all of them in order to generate successful outcomes; otherwise, t...

We propose a clustering algorithm that effectively utilizes feature order preferences, which have the form that feature s is more important than feature t. Our clustering formulation aims to incorporate feature order preferences into prototype-based clustering. The derived algorithm automatically learns distortion measures parameterized by feature weights which will respect the feature order pr...

In order to address classic questions about democratic representation in countries with winner-take-all electoral districts, it is necessary to understand the distribution of political preferences across districts. Recent formal theory literature has contributed new insights into how parties choose platforms in countries with a continuum of heterogeneous districts. Meanwhile, increases in surve...

We study the evolution of preference interdependence in aggregative games which are symmetric with respect to material payo¤s but asymmetric with respect to player objective functions. We identify a class of aggregative games whose equilibria have the property that the players with interdependent preferences (who care not only about their own material payo¤s but also about their payo¤s relative...

Expected Utility (EU) theory is a technique developed by Von Neumann and Morgenstern (1944) to deal with situations of quantifiable risk. It requires preferences to exhibit two additional axioms of continuity and independence, which are somewhat controversial. Assume that states of nature can be indexed by an s = 1, ..., S, each with a probability of occurring of p1, ..., pS , which as probabil...

The Working Papers should not be reported as representing the views of the Banco Central do Brasil. The views expressed in the papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Banco Central do Brasil. This paper characterizes ambiguity averse preferences in the absence of the completeness axiom. We axiomatize multiple selves versions of some of the most important ex...

We present Shoechicken, an intelligent agentbased system for rating RSS and Atom news content based on user preferences. The system builds a user profile implicitly by observing a user;s interactions with news content. Shoechicken rates incoming content based on the user’s preferences, and adapts to both long term and short term changes in these preferences. The system is interoperable such tha...