Decision Theory And Decision Analysis Book

	Contributing Authors
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Prescriptive Orientation of Decision Making: A Synthesis of Decision Analysis, Behavioral Decision Making, and Game Theory	3
2	A Perspective on Recent Developments in Utility Theory	15
3	Decision Influence Diagrams and Their Uses	33
4	A Pyramid of Decision Approaches	53
5	Direct Decision Making	81
6	On Some Conditions for the Ellsberg Phenomenon	91
7	On the Foundations of Robust Decision Making	103
8	Rational Comparisons and Numerical Representations	113
9	Robust Decision Making as a Decision Making Aid under Uncertainty	127
10	Topological Characterizations of Posets	139
11	Inference in Multidimensional Gaussian Processes	147
12	An Explanation and Characterization for the Buying of Lotteries	163
13	Stochastic Dominance for Elliptical Distributions: Applications in Bayesian Inference	177
14	The Nearly Perfect Auctioneer: Cryptographic Protocols for Auctions and Bidding	193
15	Optimal Hypothesis Testing with a Vague Prior	207
16	Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Some Connections with Economic Analysis	223
17	Experiments in Robust Decision Making	233
18	Heuristic Solving of NP-Complete Job-Shop Scheduling Problems by Multicriteria Optimisation	243
19	Multiple Choices in an Oligopolistic Market: Explicative Models and Neural Networks	259
20	Expert-Based Value Functions for Soil Pollutants: Assessment and Aggregation of Responses	279