Great expectations: part II: Generalized expected utility as a universal decision rule

Authors:
Francis C. Chu;Joseph Y. Halpern
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Venue:
Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Many different rules for decision making have been introduced in the literature. We show that a notion of generalized expected utility proposed in [F. Chu, J.Y. Halpern, Great expectation. Part I: On the customizability of generalized expected utility, in: Proc. IJCAI-03, Acapulco, Mexico, 2003] is a universal decision rule, in the sense that it can essentially all other decision rules. This approach gives us a general technique for designing new decision rules as well as providing a framework for comparing decision rules to each other.