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

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Abstract

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
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