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Great Expectations. Part II: Generalized Expected Utility as a Universal Decision Rule

Artificial Intelligence 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Many different rules for decision making have been introduced in the literature. We show that a notion of generalized expected utility proposed in Part I of this paper is a universal decision rule, in the sense that it can represent essentially all other decision rules.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0311027,
  title  = {Great Expectations. Part II: Generalized Expected Utility as a Universal Decision Rule},
  author = {Francis C. Chu and Joseph Y. Halpern},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0311027},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Preliminary version appears in Proc. 18th International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI), 2003, pp. 297-302

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