Efficiency versus sustainability in dynamic decision making : advances in intertemporal compromising /
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Author / Creator: | Glaser, Bodo, 1967- |
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Imprint: | Berlin : Springer, 2002. |
Description: | ix, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems ; 520 Lecture notes in economics and mathematical systems 520. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4714388 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- I. Decision Theoretical Foundation
- 2. Fundamentals of Decision Making
- 2.1. Structure and Classiication of Decision Models
- 2.2. The Set of Alternatives
- 2.3. Kinds of Objectives
- 2.4. Optimality
- 3. Fundamentals of Multi-criteria Decision Making
- 3.1. The General MODM-model
- 3.2. Dominance and Eiciency
- 3.3. Compromise Methods
- 3.3.1. Method of Weighting Objective Functions
- 3.3.2. Method of Weighted Distance Functions
- 3.3.2.1. Distance-minimization Method
- 3.3.2.2. Distance-maximization Method
- 3.3.2.3. Synopsis of Distance-based Methods
- II. Dynamic Decision Making
- 4. Fundamentals of Dynamic Decision Making
- 4.1. The Set of Alternatives
- 4.2. Basic Types of Objectives in Dynamic Decision Making
- 5. Type A Objective: `The Destination Matters'
- 5.1. Problem Formulation
- 5.2. Reinements of the General Formulation
- 5.3. Optimally
- 6. Type B Objective: `The Journey is the Goal'
- 6.1. Problem Formulation
- 6.2. Dynamic Dominance and Eficiency
- 6.3. Compromise Models
- 6.3.1. Method of Weighting Periodic Objectives
- 6.3.2. Method of Weighted Periodic Distances
- 6.4. Sustainability as Objective
- 6.4.1. A Formal Deinition
- 6.4.2. Satisicing Objective without Maximizing Behavior 178
- 6.4.3. Satisicing Objective with Maximizing Behavior
- 6.4.4. Afterthought
- 7. Multiple Objectives in Dynamic Decision Making
- 7.1. Multiple Type A Objectives
- 7.2. Multiple Objectives of Hybid Types
- 7.2.1. Problem Formulation
- 7.2.2. Eiciency Aspects
- 7.2.3. Compromise Models
- 7.2.4. Sustainability Revisited
- 7.3. Multiple Type B Objectives
- 7.3.1. Problem Formulation
- 7.3.2. Eiciency Aspects
- 7.3.3. Compromise Models
- 7.3.4. Sustainability Revisited
- 8. Concluding Remarks
- List of Figures
- Symbols and Notation
- Bibliography
- Index