Ebook: Multicriteria and Multiagent Decision Making with Applications to Economics and Social Sciences
- Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 305
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Language: English
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The book provides a comprehensive and timely report on the topic of decision making and decision analysis in economics and the social sciences. The various contributions included in the book, selected using a peer review process, present important studies and research conducted in various countries around the globe. The majority of these studies are concerned with the analysis, modeling and formalization of the behavior of groups or committees that are in charge of making decisions of social and economic importance. Decisions in these contexts have to meet precise coherence standards and achieve a significant degree of sharing, consensus and acceptance, even in uncertain and fuzzy environments. This necessitates the confluence of several research fields, such as foundations of social choice and decision making, mathematics, complexity, psychology, sociology and economics. A large spectrum of problems that may be encountered during decision making and decision analysis in the areas of economics and the social sciences, together with a broad range of tools and techniques that may be used to solve those problems, are presented in detail in this book, making it an ideal reference work for all those interested in analyzing and implementing mathematical tools for application to relevant issues involving the economy and society.
The book provides a comprehensive and timely report on the topic of decision making and decision analysis in economics and the social sciences. The various contributions included in the book, selected using a peer review process, present important studies and research conducted in various countries around the globe. The majority of these studies are concerned with the analysis, modeling and formalization of the behavior of groups or committees that are in charge of making decisions of social and economic importance. Decisions in these contexts have to meet precise coherence standards and achieve a significant degree of sharing, consensus and acceptance, even in uncertain and fuzzy environments. This necessitates the confluence of several research fields, such as foundations of social choice and decision making, mathematics, complexity, psychology, sociology and economics. A large spectrum of problems that may be encountered during decision making and decision analysis in the areas of economics and the social sciences, together with a broad range of tools and techniques that may be used to solve those problems, are presented in detail in this book, making it an ideal reference work for all those interested in analyzing and implementing mathematical tools for application to relevant issues involving the economy and society.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-11
Development Policies in China: An Analysis of the Territorial Imbalances....Pages 1-14
The Generalized Gini Welfare Function in the Framework of Symmetric Choquet Integration....Pages 15-26
Credit Crunch in the Euro Area: A Coopetitive Multi-agent Solution....Pages 27-48
Pairwise Comparison Matrices over Abelian Linearly Ordered Groups: A Consistency Measure and Weights for the Alternatives....Pages 49-64
Entropy-Based Estimators in the Presence of Multicollinearity and Outliers....Pages 65-76
The MAS Models Use – An Imperative Approach to Build a New Economic Paradigm....Pages 77-83
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Preference Relations and Hypergroups....Pages 85-96
An Analysis of Inconsistency in Intertemporal Choice....Pages 97-108
Modelling the Intertemporal Choice through the Dynamic Time-Perception....Pages 109-114
A GIS as a Decision Support System for Planning Sustainable Mobility in a Case-Study....Pages 115-128
Decision-Making Analysis to Improve Public Participation in Strategic Energy Production Management....Pages 129-142
Monadic Social Choice....Pages 143-150
Assessing Plans and Programs for Historic Centers Regeneration: An Interactive Multicriteria Approach....Pages 151-162
The Evaluation of Interventions in Urban Areas: Methodological Orientations in the Programming of Structural Funds for the Period 2007–2013....Pages 163-177
Decision-Making Process with Respect to the Reliability of Geo-Database....Pages 179-194
Analysis of the Italian Banking System Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Approach....Pages 195-217
On Some Voting Paradoxes: A Fuzzy Preference and a Fuzzy Majority Perspective....Pages 219-236
Research in Social Sciences: Fuzzy Regression and Causal Complexity....Pages 237-249
Multiobjective Decision-Making, de Finetti Prevision and Fuzzy Prevision....Pages 251-262
Quantum Decision Making, Legal Complexity and Social Behavior....Pages 263-274
Analytic Hierarchy Process for Health Technology Assessment: A Case Study for Selecting a Maintenance Service Contract....Pages 275-288
Protocol ITACA: A Decision Tool for an Energetically Efficient Building Management....Pages 289-299
Using Agent Importance to Combat Preference Manipulation in Group Decision Making....Pages 301-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-315
The book provides a comprehensive and timely report on the topic of decision making and decision analysis in economics and the social sciences. The various contributions included in the book, selected using a peer review process, present important studies and research conducted in various countries around the globe. The majority of these studies are concerned with the analysis, modeling and formalization of the behavior of groups or committees that are in charge of making decisions of social and economic importance. Decisions in these contexts have to meet precise coherence standards and achieve a significant degree of sharing, consensus and acceptance, even in uncertain and fuzzy environments. This necessitates the confluence of several research fields, such as foundations of social choice and decision making, mathematics, complexity, psychology, sociology and economics. A large spectrum of problems that may be encountered during decision making and decision analysis in the areas of economics and the social sciences, together with a broad range of tools and techniques that may be used to solve those problems, are presented in detail in this book, making it an ideal reference work for all those interested in analyzing and implementing mathematical tools for application to relevant issues involving the economy and society.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-11
Development Policies in China: An Analysis of the Territorial Imbalances....Pages 1-14
The Generalized Gini Welfare Function in the Framework of Symmetric Choquet Integration....Pages 15-26
Credit Crunch in the Euro Area: A Coopetitive Multi-agent Solution....Pages 27-48
Pairwise Comparison Matrices over Abelian Linearly Ordered Groups: A Consistency Measure and Weights for the Alternatives....Pages 49-64
Entropy-Based Estimators in the Presence of Multicollinearity and Outliers....Pages 65-76
The MAS Models Use – An Imperative Approach to Build a New Economic Paradigm....Pages 77-83
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Preference Relations and Hypergroups....Pages 85-96
An Analysis of Inconsistency in Intertemporal Choice....Pages 97-108
Modelling the Intertemporal Choice through the Dynamic Time-Perception....Pages 109-114
A GIS as a Decision Support System for Planning Sustainable Mobility in a Case-Study....Pages 115-128
Decision-Making Analysis to Improve Public Participation in Strategic Energy Production Management....Pages 129-142
Monadic Social Choice....Pages 143-150
Assessing Plans and Programs for Historic Centers Regeneration: An Interactive Multicriteria Approach....Pages 151-162
The Evaluation of Interventions in Urban Areas: Methodological Orientations in the Programming of Structural Funds for the Period 2007–2013....Pages 163-177
Decision-Making Process with Respect to the Reliability of Geo-Database....Pages 179-194
Analysis of the Italian Banking System Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Approach....Pages 195-217
On Some Voting Paradoxes: A Fuzzy Preference and a Fuzzy Majority Perspective....Pages 219-236
Research in Social Sciences: Fuzzy Regression and Causal Complexity....Pages 237-249
Multiobjective Decision-Making, de Finetti Prevision and Fuzzy Prevision....Pages 251-262
Quantum Decision Making, Legal Complexity and Social Behavior....Pages 263-274
Analytic Hierarchy Process for Health Technology Assessment: A Case Study for Selecting a Maintenance Service Contract....Pages 275-288
Protocol ITACA: A Decision Tool for an Energetically Efficient Building Management....Pages 289-299
Using Agent Importance to Combat Preference Manipulation in Group Decision Making....Pages 301-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-315
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