Preferences and Decisions Models and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greco, Salvatore. (Editor), Marques Pereira, Ricardo Alberto. (Editor), Squillante, Massimo. (Editor), Yager, Ronald R. (Editor), Kacprzyk, Janusz. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 257
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15976-3

This volume draws mostly on papers presented at the TRENTO 2009 international workshop on Preferences and Decisions, jointly organized by the University of Trento and the University of Sannio at Benevento (Italy). Since its first edition in 1997, the renowned international workshop series TRENTO aim...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents: Continuous utility functions for nontotal preorders: a review of recent results
• Risk Assessment of SLAs in Grid Computing with Predictive Probabilistic and Possibilistic Models
• From Benchmarks to Generalised Expectations
• Memory property in heterogeneously populated markets
• From comparative degrees of belief to conditional measures
• Delay and Interval Effects with Subadditive Discounting functions
• Pairwise comparison matrices: some issue on consistency and a new consistency index
• On a decision model for a life insurance company rating.-Qualitative Bipolar Decision Rules: Toward More Expressive Settings
• The dynamics of consensus in group decision making: investigating the pairwise interactions between fuzzy preferences
• Fuzzy Preference Relations Based on Differences.-Indices of Collusion among Judges and an Anti-collusion Average
• Scoring Rules and Consensus.