Decisions with Multiple Objectives Preferences and Value Trade-Offs

Name: Decisions with Multiple Objectives Preferences and Value Trade-Offs
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ISBN: 9780521438834

ISBN-10: 0521438837

ISBN-13: 9780521438834

Edition: 1993

Authors: Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa, Richard Meyer

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Many of the complex problems faced by decision makers involve multiple conflicting objectives. This book describes how a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a reasonable and responsible choice among alternatives, can systematically probe his true feelings in order to make those critically important, vexing tradeoffs between incommensurable objectives. The theory is illustrated by many real concrete examples taken from a host of disciplinary settings. The standard approach in decision theory or decision analysis specifies a simplified single objective like monetary return to maximize. By generalizing from the single objective case to the multiple objective case, this book…

Book details

List price: $74.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Preface to the Cambridge University Press edition


Preface to first edition



The problem



The structuring of objectives



Tradeoffs under certainty



Unidimensional utility theory



Multiattribute preferences under uncertainty: the two-attribute case



Multiattribute preferences under uncertainty: more than two attributes



Illustrative applications



Airport development for Mexico City: a case study



Preferences over time



Aggregation of individual preferences


Bibliography


Index