In some situations, a decision is best represented by an incompletely analyzed act: conditionally to a certain event, the consequences of the decision on sub-events are perfectly ...
We analyze communication of uncertainty among individuals as a function of the parties’ preference for modes of communication. We assume that different individuals may prefer pr...
This paper reviews recent results obtained in the medical diagnosis field by adding to a coherent inference process qualitative constraints. Such further considerations turn out ...
Let be a preference relation on a convex set F. Necessary and sufficient conditions are given that guarantee the existence of a set {ul} of affine utility functions on F such th...
We apply random set theory to an analysis of future climate change. Bounds on cumulative probability are used to quantify uncertainties in natural and socio-economic factors that ...