Great Expectations. Part II: Generalized Expected Utility as a Universal Decision Rule
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چکیده
Many different rules for decision making have been introduced in the literature. We show that a notion of generalized expected utility proposed in a com panion paper [Chu and Halpern, 2003] is a univer sal decision rule, in the sense that it can represent essentially all other decision rules.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Artif. Intell.
دوره 159 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003