Conflicting Objectives in Decisions.

Decathlon, Conflicting Objectives and User Preference Querying

First motivation of our approach is Decathlon as an athletic discipline and its development in the last century (http://www.decathlon.ee). During this period, motivated by a desire of a fair competition, a development in scoring tables occurred. Today we can say it is stabilized. It shows single disciplines ordered (and scored) in direction of better (harder) achievement. Comparison with single...

Decisions with conflicting and imprecise information

The most usual procedure when facing decisions in complex settings consists in consulting experts, aggregating the information they provide, and deciding on the basis of this aggregated information. We argue that such a procedure entails a substantial loss, insofar as it precludes the possibility to take into account simultaneously the decision maker’s attitude towards conflict among experts an...

Decisions Based on Conflicting and Inaccurate Observations’

Subjects learned the accuracies of 8 cues in a series of 50 learning trials and then used pairs of these cues to predict which of two equally likely symbols occurred in each of 100 test trials. It was concluded that: (a) estimates of cues with very high or very low accuracies are better than estimates of cues with intermediate accuracies ; (b) accurate cues are perceived more realistically than...

Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives

__________________________________________________________ We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting business objectives, and the issue is to determine the optimal cycle time, by which the shipping company removes the empty containers from the domestic port, so that the j...

Unveiling Innovative Design Principles By Means of Multiple Conflicting Objectives