RISK ANALYSIS UNDER PARTIAL PRIOR INFORMATION AND NONMONOTONE UTILITY FUNCTIONS
Lev V. Utkin ()
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Lev V. Utkin: Department of Computer Science, St. Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy, Institutski per. 5, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia
International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making (IJITDM), 2007, vol. 06, issue 04, 625-647
Abstract:
The main objective of the paper is to investigate the risk analysis problems when a precise but unknown probability distribution of states of nature belongs to a set of continuous probability distributions restricted by some known lower and upper distributions and when utility functions are nonmonotone. Methods for choosing "optimal" distributions among the set of distributions and for computing the expected utilities are proposed. Some special cases of sets of distributions, including possibility distributions, step functions, belief functions are studied under the same conditions. Various numerical examples illustrate the proposed methods.
Keywords: Risk analysis; decision making; Dempster–Shafer theory; p-boxes; nonmonotone utility function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1142/S0219622007002721
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