Uncertainty and Risk Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Abdellaoui, Mohammed (Editor), Luce, R. Duncan (Editor), Machina, Mark J. (Editor), Munier, Bertrand (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library C, Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research, 41
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

We all feel that our world is fundamentally uncertain. But less unanimity emerges as to what we mean by "uncertainty" and how we ought to adjust. Businessmen tend to be "cautious" and engineers to pick up the "right" decision criteria among the many available in the lit...