Incremental Decision Making Under Risk with the Weighted Expected Utility Model

Incremental Decision Making Under Risk with the Weighted Expected Utility Model

Hugo Gilbert, Nawal Benabbou, Patrice Perny, Olivier Spanjaard, Paolo Viappiani

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4588-4594. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/640

This paper deals with decision making under risk with the Weighted Expected Utility (WEU) model, which is a model generalizing expected utility and providing stronger descriptive possibilities. We address the problem of identifying, within a given set of lotteries, a (near-)optimal solution for a given decision maker consistent with the WEU theory. The WEU model is parameterized by two real-valued functions. We propose here a new incremental elicitation procedure to progressively reduce the imprecision about these functions until a robust decision can be made. We also give experimental results showing the practical efficiency of our method.
Keywords:
Uncertainty in AI: Decision/Utility Theory
Uncertainty in AI: Uncertainty in AI