Generalized desirability functions: a structural and topological analysis of desirability functions

2020-01-02
Akteke-Öztürk, Başak
Weber, Gerhard-Wilhelm
Köksal, Gülser
We have Derringer and Suich’s desirability functions in mind,especially, the two-sided ones in our analysis throughout thisstudy. We propose and develop a finite partitioning procedureof the individual desirability functions over their compact andconnected interval which leads to the definition of generalized desirability functions. We call the negative logarithm ofan individual desirability function having a max-type structureand including a finite number of nondifferentiable points asa generalized individual desirability function. By introducingcontinuous selection functions into desirability functions and,especially, employing piecewise max-type functions, it is possible to describe some structural and topological properties ofthese generalized functions. Our aim with this generalization isto show the mechanism that gives rise to a variation and extension in the structure of functions used in classical desirabilityapproaches.

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Citation Formats
B. Akteke-Öztürk, G.-W. Weber, and G. Köksal, “Generalized desirability functions: a structural and topological analysis of desirability functions,” Optimization, pp. 115–130, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36214.