Title of dissertation: UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION USE IN MULTIATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING Jeffrey S. Chrabaszcz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor Michael R. Dougherty Department of Psychology An inference task in one in which some known set of information is used to produce an estimate about an unknown quantity. Existing theories of how humans make inferences include ...

M auctions extend traditional auction settings to allow negotiation over nonprice attributes such as weight, color, and terms of delivery, in addition to price and promise to improve market efficiency in markets with configurable goods. This paper provides an iterative auction design for an important special case of the multiattribute allocation problem with special (preferential independent) a...

A function u(z) is a utility function if u′(z) ≥ 0. It is called risk averse if we also have u′′(z) ≤ 0. Some authors, however, require that u(i)(z) ≥ 0 if i is odd and u(i)(z) ≤ 0 if i is even. The notion of a multiattribute utility function can be defined by requiring that it is increasing in each variable and concave as an s-variate function. A stronger condition, similar to the one in case ...

Technological advances have made plausible the design of automated systems that share responsibility with a human operator. The decision to use automation to assist or replace a human operator in safety-critical tasks must account for not only the technological capabilities of the sensor and control subsystems, but also the autonomy, capabilities, and preferences of the human operator. By their...