Search Results - "Utility functions"

Discrete Choice Models with Piecewise Linear Utility: Modeling, Estimation, and Pricing.

Authors: Ke, Chenxu Wang, Ruxian Zhao, Zifeng

Source: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) (INFORMS). Jul/Aug2026, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p1266-1285. 20p.

Algorithms for Loot Box Design.

Authors: Han, Jiangze Ryan, Christopher Thomas Tong, Xin T.

Source: Operations Research. May/Jun2026, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p1321-1338. 18p.

Axioms for Automated Market Makers: A Mathematical Framework in FinTech and Decentralized Finance.

Authors: Bichuch, Maxim Feinstein, Zachary

Source: Operations Research. May/Jun2026, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p1187-1202. 16p.

Linear Transformation of One-Dimensional Utility Functions: Empirical Study on the Impact on the Final Ranking of Alternatives in Personal Decisions.

Authors: Tönsfeuerborn, Mendy von Nitzsch, Rüdiger Siebert, Johannes Ulrich

Source: Decision Analysis (INFORMS). Mar2026, Vol. 23 Issue 1, p46-64. 19p.

Fair Shares: Feasibility, Domination, and Incentives.

Authors: Babaioff, Moshe Feige, Uriel

Source: Mathematics of Operations Research (INFORMS). Aug2025, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p1901-1934. 34p.

Note: Ordinal Equivalence of Buying and Selling Prices for Information—When is Constant Risk Attitude Entailed?

Authors: Hazen, Gordon¹ (AUTHOR) gbh305@northwestern.edu

Source: Decision Analysis (INFORMS). Sep2025, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p227-233. 7p.

A Preregistered Falsification Test of the Decision by Sampling Model and Rank-Order Effect.

Authors: Forsgren, Mattias Frimanson, Lars Juslin, Peter

Source: Management Science (INFORMS). Oct2025, Vol. 71 Issue 10, p8218-8229. 12p.

Endogenous emergence of small-world remoteness under utility-driven adaptive rewiring.

Authors: Silver, Steven D.¹ (AUTHOR) steven.silver@sjsu.edu

Source: Applied Economics Letters. Jul2026, p1-5. 5p. 2 Illustrations.

Satisficing, aggregation, and quasilinear utility.

Authors: Allen, Roy Rehbeck, John

Source: Quantitative Economics. May2026, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p431-460. 30p.

From Incremental Validity to Decision Utility: A Framework for Intelligence Testing in Education.

Authors: Pedraja-Rejas, Liliana Araneda-Guirriman, Carmen Rodríguez-Ponce, Emilio

Source: Journal of Intelligence. Jun2026, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p101. 24p.

On the Value of Information Across Decision Problems.

Authors: Abbas, Ali Hazen, Gordon

Source: Decision Analysis (INFORMS). Mar2025, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p1-13. 13p.

Farmer risk preferences: Does context matter?

Authors: Loduca, Natalie R. Swinton, Scott M.

Source: Journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. Mar2026, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p97-112. 16p.

Utility-generating government spending and (in)determinacy in a two-sector model.

Authors: Jiang, Dou¹ (AUTHOR) dou.jiang@uqconnect.edu.au

Source: Applied Economics. Mar2026, Vol. 58 Issue 11, p2136-2154. 19p.

A Unified Model of Investor Utility and Asset Pricing.

Authors: Belev, Emilian diBartolomeo, Dan

Source: Journal of Investing. Apr2026, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p41-71. 31p.

Stochastic Approximation of Symmetric Nash Equilibria in Queueing Games.

Authors: Ravner, Liron Snitkovsky, Ran I.

Source: Operations Research. Nov/Dec2024, Vol. 72 Issue 6, p2698-2725. 28p.

Bringing ML to the real world: Rewards are all we need.

Authors: Kalinin, Sergei V. Slautin, Boris N. Liu, Yu et al.

Source: APL Machine Learning. Mar2026, Vol. 4 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p.

A Utility-Driven Bayesian Design: A New Framework for Extracting Optimal Experiments from Observational Reliability Data.

Authors: Berni, Rossella Nikiforova, Nedka Dechkova Stefanini, Federico Mattia

Source: Stats. Feb2026, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p9. 15p.

Preference ambiguity and robustness in multistage decision making.

Authors: Liu, Jia Chen, Zhiping Xu, Huifu

Source: Mathematical Programming. Nov2025, Vol. 214 Issue 1/2, p847-939. 93p.

Subjects: Utility functions, Robust optimization, Decision making, Dynamic programming, Expectation-maximization algorithms, Decomposition method

The generality of the strong axiom.

Authors: Ugarte, Cristián¹ (AUTHOR) cugartecaraball@crai.com

Source: Economic Theory. Dec2025, Vol. 80 Issue 4, p965-988. 24p.

Equilibrium existence in Krugman's and Bertoletti–Etro's trade models: the general case.

Authors: Slepov, Fedor Kokovin, Sergey

Source: Economic Theory. Nov2025, Vol. 80 Issue 3, p761-800. 40p.