1. Introductory Sections -- Multiperson Decision Making: a Selective Review -- Fuzzy Set Theory as a Theory of Vagueness -- Vague Notions in the Theory of Voting -- 2. General Issues Related to Decision Making under Fuzziness -- Aggregation of Possibility Measures -- Modelling Valued Preference...

This volume brings together for the first time articles by well-known experts focusing on the topic of the joint occurrence of imprecision, dealt with in terms of fuzzy sets and possibility theory, and randomness, dealt with in terms of probability theory, in a wide spectrum of decision making...

The important issue of how to overcome rigidness, inadequacy and human inconsistency regarding conventional assumptions on preferences in decision making (for example, regarding yes/no crispness or transitivity) is discussed by well-known experts in this volume. In the introductory articles,...

The purpose of this volume is to present recent developments in the use of fuzzy sets in broadly perceived interactive optimization and mathematical programming. After some introductory sections some human related issues are covered. Then, basic issues related to fuzzy optimization are dealt...