The Consistent Preferences Approach to Deductive Reasoning in Games presents, applies, and synthesizes what my co-authors and I have called the 'consistent preferences' approach to deductive reasoning in games. Briefly described, this means that the object of the analysis is the ranking by each...

In two volumes, this new edition presents the state of the art in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). Reflecting the explosive growth in the field seen during the last several years, the editors not only present surveys of the foundations of MCDA, but look as well at many new areas and...

Motivating Examples -- Decision-Theoretic Framework -- Belief Operators -- Basic Characterizations -- Relaxing Completeness -- Backward Induction -- Sequentiality -- Quasi-Perfectness -- Properness -- Capturing forward Induction through Full Permissibility -- Applying Full Permissibility to...

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...