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title: "Great Expectations. Part II: Generalized Expected Utility as a Universal Decision Rule"
authors:
  - "Francis C. Chu"
  - "Joseph Y. Halpern"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/44"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0044.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "297-301"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Great Expectations. Part II: Generalized Expected Utility as a Universal Decision Rule

Francis C. Chu, Joseph Y. Halpern

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 297-301.

## Abstract

Many different rules for decision making have been introduced in the literature. We show that a notion of generalized expected utility proposed in a companion paper [Chu and Halpern, 2003] is a universal decision rule, in the sense that it can represent essentially all other decision rules.