Decisions with Multiple Objectives

'This book is a welcome and unquestionably significant contribution to the practice of decision analysis as well as to the research and teaching of its theory and application.' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 'A highly recommended selection by two distinguished leaders in the field ...' Journal of the American Statistical Association 'What the authors have done is, I believe, precisely what they set out to do, and they do it very well indeed. Their primary goal was to redress the neglect of the general problem of utility assessment in complex decision situations that are formulated in the (subjective) expected utility or decision analysis mode, and to illustrate the usefulness of their approach across a broad spectrum of important decision problems. The mathematical developments that are included are there because they can be used to help people think about their preferences in complex situations and to assess their utility functions - if it comes to that - and not because they are pretty mathematics. The broad experience that Keeney and Raiffa have in applying the procedures they present in Decisions adds significantly both to the value of the book and to the conviction behind it.' Choice

• Preface to the Cambridge University Press edition; Preface to first edition; 1. The problem; 2. The structuring of objectives; 3. Tradeoffs under certainty; 4. Unidimensional utility theory; 5. Multiattribute preferences under uncertainty: the two-attribute case; 6. Multiattribute preferences under uncertainty: more than two attributes; 7. Illustrative applications; 8. Airport development for Mexico City: a case study; 9. Preferences over time; 10. Aggregation of individual preferences; Bibliography; Index.