Non-Conventional Preference Relations in Decision Making (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 301)

ISBN 10: 3540189548 / ISBN 13: 9783540189541

Published by Springer, 1988

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• Title: Non-Conventional Preference Relations in Decision Making (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 301)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540189548
• ISBN 13: 9783540189541
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Bernard ROY Professor, University of Paris-Dauphine Director of LAMSADE 11 is not unusual for a dozen or so loosely related working papers to be published in book form as the natural outgrowth of a scientific gathering. Although many a volu­ me of collected papers has come into point in this way, the homogeneity of the arti­ cles included will often be more apparent than real. As the reader will quickly ob­ serve, such is not the case with the present volume. As one can judge from its ti­ tle, 1t is in fact an outcome of an ed~torial project by J. Kacprzyk and M. Roubens. T~ey asked contributing authors to submit recent works which would examine. within a non-traditional theoretical framework, preference analysis and preference modeliing 1n a fuzzy context oriented towards decision aid. The articles by J.P. Ooignon, B. Monjardet, T. Tanino and Ph. Vincke empnasize the analysis of oreference structures, mainly in the presence of incomparability. In­ transitivlty, thresholds and, more generally, inaccurate determination. Considera­ ble attention is devoted to the analysis of efficient and non-dominated (in Pareto's sense of the term) decisions in the four papers presented by S. Ovchinnikov and M.

Synopsis

The important issue of how to overcome rigidness, inadequacy and human inconsistency regarding conventional assumptions on preferences in decision making (for example, regarding yes/no crispness or transitivity) is discussed by well-known experts in this volume. In the introductory articles, analyses of those conventional assumptions are given and the need for reconsiderations and changes as to preference-related aspects is advocated. The following contributions are mainly concerned with issues related to valued (including fuzzy) preference relations, such as analysis of their properties and their use in various decision making and choice problems and in group decision making.