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When Is A Single "And"-Condition Enough?, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
When Is A Single "And"-Condition Enough?, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
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In many practical situations, there are several possible decisions. Any general recommendation means specifying, for each possible decision, conditions under which this decision is recommended. In some cases, a single "and"-condition is sufficient: e.g., a condition under which a patient is recommended to take aspirin is that "the patient has a fever and the patient does not have stomach trouble". In other cases, conditions are more complicated. A natural question is: when is a single "and"-condition enough? In this paper, we provide an answer to this question.
How To Make Decision Under Interval Uncertainty: Description Of All Reasonable Partial Orders On The Set Of All Intervals, Tiago M. Costa, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
How To Make Decision Under Interval Uncertainty: Description Of All Reasonable Partial Orders On The Set Of All Intervals, Tiago M. Costa, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
In many practical situations, we need to make a decision while for each alternative, we only know the corresponding value of the objective function with interval uncertainty. To help a decision maker in this situation, we need to know the (in general, partial) order on the set of all intervals that corresponds to the preferences of the decision maker. For this purpose, in this paper, we provide a description of all such partial orders -- under some reasonable conditions. It turns out that each such order is characterized by two linear inequalities relating the endpoints of the corresponding intervals, and …