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Fuzzy Decision Theory

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The main purpose of the fuzzy approach of individual preferences is to introduce some new behaviors inside the standard theory. The existing literature is generally divided in two schools, according to the position authors adopt relatively to the axiom of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA).1 Actually, most of the works using fuzzy preferences are based on additive measures of satisfaction (Bazu 1984, Butnariu 1987, Orlovsky 1980, Ovchinnikov & Roubens 1992).

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Billot, A. (1999). Fuzzy Decision Theory. In: Luini, L. (eds) Uncertain Decisions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5083-9_9

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