• DocumentCode
    3021557
  • Title

    Possibility theory vs. probability theory in decision analysis

  • Author

    Zadeh, L.A.

  • Author_Institution
    University of California, Berkeley, California
  • fYear
    1977
  • fDate
    7-9 Dec. 1977
  • Firstpage
    1267
  • Lastpage
    1269
  • Abstract
    In decision analysis, information analysis, reliability theory, control theory, choice theory, game theory and most other theories in which the concept of uncertainty plays an important role, it has long been -- and continues to be -- an unquestion assumption that uncertainty is a concomitant of randomness and, as such, should be treated by the methods provided by probability theory. However, as we learn more about the issues relating to uncertainty, it is becoming increasingly clear that randomness and uncertainty are by no means coextensive concepts, and that uncertainty has two distinct facets -- fuzziness and randomness -- both of which play basic roles in human reasoning, decision-making and concept formation.
  • Keywords
    Decision making; Fuzzy sets; Game theory; Humans; Laboratories; Possibility theory; Reliability theory; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Decision and Control including the 16th Symposium on Adaptive Processes and A Special Symposium on Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications, 1977 IEEE Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CDC.1977.271764
  • Filename
    4046034