Land development is a typical one-shot decision for private investors due to the huge investment expense and the fear of substantial loss. In this paper, a private real estate investment problem is analyzed within a one-shot decision framework, which is used for a situation where a decision is...

A fundamental alternative for stochastic optimization problems named focus programming is proposed based on the focus theory of choice. Different from the existing approaches such as chance-constrained programming and two-stage stochastic programming which are based on expected utility theory,...

We propose a new newsvendor model with the focus theory of choice. Instead of calculating the expected utility, the model conceives that a retailer evaluates each order quantity by examining the most salient demand for him/her. The proposed model is a bilevel optimization problem with maximin...

Static stochastic optimization problems are formulated with the focus theory of choicein which instead of using the expected utility in the existing approaches, the optimal solution isdetermined as per which solution’s focus (the most salient realization of a random vector) is the...

We present a decision theory which models and axiomatizes a decision-making procedure. This procedure involves two steps: in the first step, for each action, some specific event which can bring about a relatively high outcome with a relatively high probability or a relatively low outcome with a...