Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication in IJAR of a paper co-authored by Gert de Cooman, Filip Hermans, and myself:

Accept & reject statement-based uncertainty models

Links:

• Journal version (free download until March 12th):

  http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QPbF,KD6Z3Yjz

  or (the above link does not work for me in Firefox)

  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S0888613X14001789/20150121T18...

• DOI:

  10.1016/j.ijar.2014.12.003

• Author post-print version (v6 update with some errata fixed will arrive by next week):

  http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4462

Abstract:

We develop a framework for modelling and reasoning with uncertainty based on accept and reject statements about gambles. It generalises the frameworks found in the literature based on statements of acceptability, desirability, or favourability and clarifies their relative position. Next to the statement-based formulation, we also provide a translation in terms of preference relations, discuss—as a bridge to existing frameworks—a number of simplified variants, and show the relationship with prevision-based uncertainty models. We furthermore provide an application to modelling symmetry judgements.

Keywords:

Acceptability; Indifference; Desirability; Favourability; Preference; Prevision

Best regards,

Erik Quaeghebeur

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