more quantitative manner by incorporating the game theoretic notion of a utility measure. A high confidence factor in … taking a certain action may be solidified and validated by pairing it with a high utility as well. Not only can the addition … of a utility value lead to a more preferred solution, depending upon the implementation, the utility measure may also …

The Utility Accommodation Policy (UAP) is a collection of the regulations and practices to control the utility … (2002) “Present FHWA regulations, policies, and practices dealing with utility relocation and accommodation matters have … imperative to develop a utility accommodation policy that reflects the current needs of the industry. The current utility …

This work is an initial exploration of the use of the decision-theoretic concept of utility to guide pattern mining. We … present the use of utility functions as against thresholds and constraints as the mechanism to express user preferences and … formulate several pattern mining problems that use utility functions. Utility guided pattern mining provides the twin benefits …

Background: Variation exists in quality of life (i.e., utility) estimates depending on the utility elicitation method … HRQOL in a CRC population and assess the relationship between utility estimates generated. Methods: A mixed methods study …. Results: Mean utility scores between the EQ-5D and HUI-III were identical at 0.76 (95% CI), with an overall VAS score of 0 …

This paper is motivated by the search for one cardinal utility for decisions under risk, welfare evaluations, and other … contexts. This cardinal utility should have meaning prior to risk, with risk depending on cardinal utility, not the other way … around. The rank-dependent utility model can reconcile such a view on utility with the position that risk attitude consists …

impact will always be negative, even for an intertemporal substitution elasticity below 1. In the standard expected-utility …

Methods for determining the form of utilities are needed for the implementation of utility theory in specific decisions …. An important step forward was achieved when utility theorists characterized useful parametric families of utilities, and … simplifying decompositions of multiattribute utilities. The standard development of these results is based on expected utility …

This paper compares classical expected utility with the more general rank-dependent utility models. First we show that … it is the difference between the independence condition for preferences of expected utility and its comonotonic … generalization in rank-dependent utility, that provides the exact demarcation between the two models. Other axiomatic differences are …