Decision-theoretic foundations of qualitative possibility theory
European Journal of Operational ResearchPublished 1 February 2001
Didier Dubois, Henri Prade, Régis Sabbadin
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A justification of two qualitative counterparts of the expected utility criterion for decision under uncertainty, which only require bounded, linearly ordered, valuation sets for expressing uncertainty and preferences, and proposes an operationally testable description of possibility theory.
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