An extension of the DS/AHP method is proposed in the paper. It takes into account the fact that the multi-criteria decision problem might have several levels of criteria. Moreover, it is assumed that expert judgments concerning the criteria are imprecise and incomplete. The proposed extension...

The measurement of enterprise management efficiency is a complex and important system involving many mutual-coupling and unknown or uncertain factors. Using the information entropy principle, the weight vector of these factors can be calculated objectively. Based on this, the evidences were...

Models in political science are often poorly specified prior to testing. In practice, most analysts rely on regression analysis to determine the weights for each independent variable (causal factor) identified in the model. We demonstrate a method for determining the relative weights of causal...

The main objective of the paper is to investigate the risk analysis problems when a precise but unknown probability distribution of states of nature belongs to a set of continuous probability distributions restricted by some known lower and upper distributions and when utility functions are...