Decision Making Process: Concepts and Methods / Edition 1

by Denis Bouyssou, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Marc Pirlot

Overview

This book provides an overview of the main methods and results in the formal study of the human decision-making process, as defined in a relatively wide sense. A key aim of the approach contained here is to try to break down barriers between various disciplines encompassed by this field, including psychology, economics and computer science. All these approaches have contributed to progress in this very important and much-studied topic in the past, but none have proved sufficient so far to define a complete understanding of the highly complex processes and outcomes. This book provides the reader with state-of-the-art coverage of the field, essentially forming a roadmap to the field of decision analysis.

The first part of the book is devoted to basic concepts and techniques for representing and solving decision problems, ranging from operational research to artificial intelligence. Later chapters provide an extensive overview of the decision-making process under conditions of risk and uncertainty. Finally, there are chapters covering various approaches to multi-criteria decision-making. Each chapter is written by experts in the topic concerned, and contains an extensive bibliography for further reading and reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848211162
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	07/07/2009
Series:	ISTE Series , #396
Pages:	928
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Denis Bouyssou is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, Paris Dauphine University, France.

Marc Pirlot is Professor of Mathematics and Operational Research at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in Belgium.

Didier Dubois and Henri Prade are Senior Researchers at CNRS, University of Toulouse, France.

Table of Contents

Preface xxi

Chapter 1. From Decision Theory to Decision-aiding Methodology 1
Alexis TSOUKIAS

Chapter 2. Binary Relations and PreferenceModeling 49
Denis BOUYSSOU, Philippe VINCKE

Chapter 3. Formal Representations of Uncertainty 85
Didier DUBOIS, Henri PRADE

Chapter 4. Human Decision: Recognition plus Reasoning 157
Jean-Charles POMEROL

Chapter 5. Multiple Objective Linear Programming 199
Jacques TEGHEM

Chapter 6. Constraint Satisfaction Problems 265
Gerard VERFAILLIE, Thomas SCHIEX

Chapter 7. Logical Representation of Preferences 321
Jerome LANG

Chapter 8. Decision under Risk: The Classical Expected Utility Model 365
Alain CHATEAUNEUF, Michele COHEN, Jean-Marc TALLON

Chapter 9. Decision under Uncertainty: The Classical Models 385
Alain CHATEAUNEUF, Michele COHEN, Jean-Yves JAFFRAY

Chapter 10. Cardinal Extensions of the EU Model Based on the Choquet Integral 401
Alain CHATEAUNEUF, Michele COHEN

Chapter 11. A Survey of Qualitative Decision Rules under Uncertainty 435
Didier DUBOIS, Helene FARGIER, Henri PRADE, Regis SABBADIN

Chapter 12. A Cognitive Approach to Human Decision Making 475
Eric RAUFASTE, Denis J. HILTON

Chapter 13. Bayesian Networks 505
Jean-Yves JAFFRAY

Chapter 14. Planning under Uncertainty with Markov Decision Processes 541
Regis SABBADIN

Chapter 15. Multiattribute Utility Theory 579
Mohammed ABDELLAOUI, Christophe GONZALES

Chapter 16. Conjoint Measurement Models for Preference Relations 617
Denis BOUYSSOU, Marc PIRLOT

Chapter 17. Aggregation Functions for Decision Making 673
Jean-Luc MARICHAL

Chapter 18. Subjective Evaluation 723
Michel GRABISCH

Chapter 19. Social Choice Theory and Multicriteria Decision Aiding 779
Denis BOUYSSOU, Thierry MARCHANT, Patrice PERNY

Chapter 20.Metric and Latticial Medians 811
Olivier HUDRY, Bruno LECLERC, BernardMONJARDET, Jean-Pierre BARTHELEMY

List of Authors 857

Index 861