The theory of melioration, originally formulated for individual decision-making contexts, is formally extended to a game theoretic framework. This paper proves the existence of a distribution that is a melioration strategy on the part of all players. Further, the question of stability of such a distribution is studied. JEL Classification Numbers: C62; C72.

Terrorism is commonly considered a coercive political strategy employed to manipulate a broader audience, enraptured by the horror of the terrorist’s dramatic acts of violence. However, if generating publicity and disrupting public life is the raison d’etre of modern terrorism, why do so many contemporary attacks remain unclaimed by their perpetrators? Over the past forty years, the proportion ...

I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance of global to local measures are larger, relative to non-officers. There is no difference in sensitivity of pay to local measure...

In this paper, we firstly defined neutrosophic parameterized neutrosophic soft sets(npn−soft sets) which is combination of a neutrosophic sets and a soft sets. Our npn−soft sets generalizes the concept of the other soft sets such as; fuzzy soft sets, intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets, neutrosophic soft sets, fuzzy parameterized soft sets, intuitionistic fuzzy parameterized soft sets, neutrosophic ...

Classical decision theory provides a normative theory for representing and reasoning with complex preferences. But straightforward application of this theory to construct automated decision making agents is difficult due to the high cost of eliciting utilities. People tend to express their preferences in qualitative terms and have troubles translating them into numeric utilities. This difficult...