Incomplete preferences in disaster risk management
by Nicolas Espinoza, Martin Peterson
International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management (IJTPM), Vol. 8, No. 4, 2008

Abstract: This paper addresses the phenomenon of incomplete preferences in disaster risk management. If an agent finds two options to be incomparable and thus has an incomplete preference ordering, i.e., neither prefers one option over the other nor finds them equally as good, it is not possible for the agent to perform a value tradeoff, necessary for an informed decision, between these two options. In this paper we suggest a way to model incomplete preference orderings by means of probabilistic preferences, and how to reveal an agent's incomplete preference ordering within a behaviorist framework.

Online publication date: Wed, 03-Sep-2008

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