The purpose of this paper is to briefly discuss some important current questions and problems related to the use of scoring rules (SRs) both in connection with the actual assessment of probabilities and with the evaluation of probability forecasts and probability assessors. With regard to the...

The one-switch property states that the preference between any two lotteries switches at most once as wealth increases. Working within the expected utility framework, we extend the one-switch notion to the multiattribute case and identify the families of multiattribute utility functions that are...

Decision analysis produces measures of value such as expected net present values or expected utilities and ranks alternatives by these value estimates. Other optimization-based processes operate in a similar manner. With uncertainty and limited resources, an analysis is never perfect, so these...