A Theory of Case-Based Decisions

Description

Gilboa and Schmeidler provide a new paradigm for modeling decision making under uncertainty. Case-based decision theory suggests that people make decisions by analogies to past cases: they tend to choose acts that performed well in the past in similar situations, and to avoid acts that performed poorly. The authors describe the general theory and its relationship to planning, repeated choice problems, inductive inference, and learning. They highlight its mathematical and philosophical foundations and compare it to expected utility theory as well as to rule-based systems.

ITZHAK GILBOA

'... an interesting theory based on a new paradigm for modelling decision making under uncertainty ... it is a very careful presentation in content and editorial work.' Mariano Ruiz Espeijo, Zentralblatt MATH