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We focus on the problem of decision making in the face of uncertainty The issue of the representation of uncertain information is considered and a number of different frameworks are described: possibilistic, probabilistic, belief structures and graded possibilistic. We suggest methodologies for decision making in these different environments. The importance of decision attitude in the construction of decision functions is strongly emphasized.
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Yager, R.R. (2000). Decision Making under Various Types of Uncertainty. In: Zanakis, S.H., Doukidis, G., Zopounidis, C. (eds) Decision Making: Recent Developments and Worldwide Applications. Applied Optimization, vol 45. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4919-9_16
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