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Decision Theory: An Introduction to the Mathematics of Rationality

Simon French
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The article was published on 1986-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 836 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evidential decision theory & Evidential reasoning approach.

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Application of the AHP in project management

TL;DR: The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as mentioned in this paper is a potential decision-making method for use in project management, which is used as an example for the contractor prequalification problem.
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Learning to order things

TL;DR: An on-line algorithm for learning preference functions that is based on Freund and Schapire's "Hedge" algorithm is considered, and it is shown that the problem of finding the ordering that agrees best with a learned preference function is NP-complete.
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Interpreting TF-IDF term weights as making relevance decisions

TL;DR: A novel probabilistic retrieval model forms a basis to interpret the TF-IDF term weights as making relevance decisions, and it is shown that the term-frequency factor of the ranking formula can be rendered into different term- frequency factors of existing retrieval systems.
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Risks and decisions for conservation and environmental management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of the risk management cycle in the context of value, history, perception, values, history and perception, and perception of uncertainty in risk management.
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Group preference aggregation methods employed in AHP: An evaluation and an intrinsic process for deriving members' weightages

TL;DR: In this article, a simple and intuitively appealing eigenvector based method was proposed to intrinsically determine the weightages for group members using their own subjective opinions, which is the most commonly used method for combining individual opinions to form a group opinion.