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A Decision Rule for Uncertain Multi-Criteria Pure Decision Making and Independent Criteria
A Decision Rule for Uncertain Multi-Criteria Pure Decision Making and Independent Criteria

Author(s): Helena Gaspars-Wieloch
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Financial Markets
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: uncertainty; multi-criteria decision-making; pure strategies; one-shot decisions; independent criteria; two-stage models

Summary/Abstract: The paper is concerned with multi-criteria decision-making under uncertainty with scenario planning. This topic has been explored by many researchers since almost all real-world decision problems contain multiple conflicting criteria and a deterministic evaluation of criteria is often impossible. We propose a procedure for uncertain multi-objective optimization which can be applied when seeking a pure strategy. A pure strategy, as opposed to a mixed strategy, allows the decision-maker to select and perform only one accessible alternative. The new approach takes into account the decision-maker’s preference structure (importance of particular goals) and nature (pessimistic, moderate or optimistic attitude towards a given problem). It is designed for one-shot decisions made under uncertainty with unknown probabilities (frequencies), see decision-making under complete uncertainty or decision-making under strategic uncertainty. The novel approach can be used in the case of totally independent payoff matrices for particular targets.

  • Issue Year: 87/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 77-92
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English