A metaevaluation is a quality cross-check to examine the conduct of an evaluation and validate results. Of few studies, almost none have reported on procedure through practical example evaluation. This study reports strengths weaknesses program in terms four main standards: utility, feasibility, propriety, accuracy. It includes process that involves both quantitative qualitative analysis data f...

The application of multi-attribute utility theory based on the Choquet integral requires the prior identification of a capacity if the utility scale is unipolar, or of a bi-capacity if the utility scale is bipolar. In order to implement a minimum distance principle for capacity or bi-capacity approximation or identification, quadratic distances between capacities and bi-capacities are studied. ...

BACKGROUND Although effective smoking cessation interventions exist, information is limited about their cost-effectiveness and cost-utility. OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of an Internet-based multiple computer-tailored smoking cessation program and tailored counseling by practice nurses working in Dutch general practices compared with an Internet-based multiple c...

nowadays multicriteria decision making (mcdm) methods are a useful tool for investigating natural resources and toaddress problems related to hydro systems. the goal of this research was to assess the daliri standardization method(dsm) to prioritize and make selections for application to mcdm. and to compare the dsm method with the utilityadditive (uta) method. the (dsm) method, unlike the (uta...

The paper describes a simulation environment for research, development, integration, testing and deployment of plug compatible power applications. By using this environment the elapsed time from initial research to field deployment of new power applications can be dramatically reduced. The environment integrates the EPRI Operator Training Simulator with a Utility Software Development Framework....

The Health Utilities Index (HUI) system is a generic, preference-based measure of health status intended for use in clinical outcomes measurement, in health surveys, in program planning and resource allocation. The utility scores provide a summary index of health-related quality of life on a zero to 1.0 scale; they may be used in cost-utility analyses to calculate quality-adjusted life years an...

This paper studies parameterized stochastic optimization problems in finite discrete time that arise in many applications in operations research and mathematical finance. We prove the existence of solutions and the absence of a duality gap under conditions that relax the boundedness assumption made by Pennanen and Perkkiö in [Stochastic programs without duality gaps, Math. Program., 136(1):91–1...

This paper develops a robust optimization based decision-making framework using a nonparametric perturbation of a reference utility function. The perturbation preserves the risk-aversion property but solves the problem of ambiguity and inconsistency in eliciting the reference utility function. We study the topology of the perturbation, and show that in the decision-making framework the price of...

This paper describes a utility named ruf that reads files from an unmounted file system. The files are accessed by reading disk structures directly so the program is peculiar to the specific file system employed. The current implementation supports the *BSD FFS, SunOS/Solaris UFS, HPUX HFS, and Linux ext2fs file systems. All these file systems derive from the original FFS, but have peculiar dif...

This paper develops a multiattribute preference ranking rule in the context of utility robustness. A nonparametric perturbation of a given additive reference utility function is specified to solve the problem of ambiguity and inconsistency in utility assessments, while preserving the additive structure and the decision maker’s risk preference under each criterion. A concept of robust preference...