Estimating the form of a decision maker's preference function and converging to preferred solutions

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2018-11-07

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Köksalan, Mustafa Murat
Karakaya, Gülşah

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We estimate the form of an underlying preference function that is assumed to represent the preferences of a decision maker in a multi-objective environment. After estimating the form, we use an algorithm that utilizes the properties of the estimated form in order to efficiently converge to a preferred solution of the decision maker. We develop the necessary theory to estimate the form of the preference function. We test our approach on several instances and show that it works well.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88237
https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4701/presentation/17866

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The 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2018

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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M. M. Köksalan and G. Karakaya, “Estimating the form of a decision maker’s preference function and converging to preferred solutions,” presented at the The 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 4-7, 2018, Phoenix, USA, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88237.