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A new end-user-oriented and dynamic approach to post-disaster resilience quantification for individual facilities. [PDF]

open access: yesRisk Anal
Abstract Community recovery from a disaster is a complex process, in which the importance of different types of infrastructure functionality can change over time. Most of the myriad of metrics available for measuring disaster resilience do not capture the dynamic importance of functionality explicitly, however.
Cremen G.
europepmc   +2 more sources

AN EXPERIMENT IN MULTIATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1985
A version of multiattribute utility theory is evaluated as an aid to social decision making using an Australian case study. A multiattribute utility function is assessed over the descriptive, discrete decision alternatives of the decision problem rather than over the risky consequences of the attributes as in the standard approach.
Delforce, Robert J.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Additive utility in prospect theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Prospect theory is currently the main descriptive theory of decision under uncertainty. It generalizes expected utility by introducing nonlinear decision weighting and loss aversion.
Diecidue E.   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Accumulation is late and brief in preferential choice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Preferential choices are often explained using models within the evidence accumulation framework: value drives the drift rate at which evidence is accumulated until a threshold is reached and an option is chosen. Although rarely stated explicitly, almost
Bose, Devdeepta   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Water Demand Analysis for Tree Crops in Spanish Mediterranean Farms

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2006
Olive, vine and almond in rainfed farming systems are the most traditional crops in the large inland extensions of the Spanish Mediterranean. Their economic contributions enable farming activities to be maintained meaning that the villages remain ...
Maria Angeles Fernández-Zamudio   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating Care: How Transparency, Ownership, Control, and Sanctions Shape Trust and Preferences

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Of the various attributes and regulatory tools related to nursing home service provision—such as ownership, transparency, oversight, and sanctions—which are seen as preferable and are most trusted? To address this question, we conducted a conjoint survey experiment on nursing home services with 1009 direct relatives of nursing home residents ...
Ixchel Pérez‐Durán   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

OPTIMASI PENGEMBANGAN KAWASAN WISATA DI SEMARANG DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODEANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS, ANALISIS SWOT, DAN MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY THEORY

open access: yesJ@ti Undip: Jurnal Teknik Industri, 2015
Kota Semarang memiliki kondisi geografis yang berpotensi sebagai destinasi pariwisata bila dapat dikembangkan dengan baik. Berdasarkan kondisi tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (i)memilih obyek wisata di semarang yang akan dikaji dengan ...
Aries Susanty   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Utility Function for Examining Policy Affecting Salmon in the Skeena River [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
The interests of many groups, some with multiple objectives, are important to include in evaluating strategies affecting salmon in the Skeena River. A multiattribute utility model is proposed for addressing these issues.
Keeney, R.L.
core  

Heterogeneous Fuzzy Group Decision‐Making Model With Mixed Criteria

open access: yesAdvances in Fuzzy Systems, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Organizational decisions, often originating from diverse groups of managers with varying criteria, encounter challenges due to the inherent ambiguity in human judgments, particularly those involving preferences. This paper proposes a nuanced solution using a heterogeneous fuzzy group decision‐making method, accommodating diverse criteria based on real ...
Akbar Karimi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Personalized Persuasion by Shaping Beliefs About the Multidimensional Features of Objects

open access: yesIEEE Access
Personalization consistently improves the impact of persuasive agents, recommender systems, and nudge interventions. However, most implementations still rely on coarse-grained demographic or personality attributes such as age, sex, or broad personality ...
Kazunori Terada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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