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2010
Springer

Preference elicitation for risky prospects

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Preference elicitation for risky prospects
Minimax-regret preference elicitation allows intelligent decisions to be made on behalf of people facing risky choices. Standard gamble queries, a vital tool in this type of preference elicitation, assume that people, from whom preference information is being elicited, can be modeled using expected utility theory. However, there is strong evidence from psychology that people may systematically deviate from expected utility theory. Cumulative prospect theory is an alternative model to expected utility theory which has been shown empirically, to better explain humans' decision making in risky settings. We show that the current minimaxregret preference elicitation techniques can fail to properly elicit appropriate information if the preferences of the user follow cumulative prospect theory. As a result, we develop a new querying method for preference elicitation that is applicable to cumulative prospect theory models. Simulations show that our method can effectively elicit informati...
Greg Hines, Kate Larson
Added 08 Nov 2010
Updated 08 Nov 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where ATAL
Authors Greg Hines, Kate Larson
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